dreaming of a better internet
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dreaming of a better internet
Instead of discussing whether the internet is good or bad, I suggest we start by asking: do you want to show me your internet?
March 27 at 13:24
ore often than not, the digital gardens of today are botanic—privately owned online spaces made for visitors to fawn over while a “do not touch” sign looms in view. These private gardens are generative for our personal learning, but they are far from the communal gardens I grew up in that valued collective work and knowledge. Where are the digital
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people still carve out community in the most hostile of places and subvert platforms to create space for human-first desires. We create solidarity infrastructure out of text chains, subvert government control through form submissions, and carve intimate sanctuaries in the comment sections and profiles of algorithmically controlled wastelands. We... See more
one year of independence
People in my profession say all the time that they can't do their jobs without Twitter, and it drives me so crazy because I think most of them are worse at their jobs because of Twitter. The reason is that Twitter, as do other forms of social media, gets you to lose control of what you care about. You lose that intentionality with your own... See more
Clay Skipper • Ezra Klein’s Formula for a Good Day Involves These Four Things
the new digital city, if we are to have one, will need to be carefully designed. properly, and for scale. and with designs that fix the mistakes of previous cities and past bad designs. all the harmful things should be accounted for in digital cities
we are re-creating life here
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