dreaming of a better internet

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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

Annika Hansteen-Izora • On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity

Keely Adler

The problem is no longer getting to express oneself but finding moments of solitude and silence in which one might eventually find something worth saying. – Gille Deleuze

Alara

The internet used to be an escape from reality. Now, reality is an escape from the internet.

alex

Scraping the Social: “We are unknown to ourselves—and with good reason.” Friedrich Nietzsche—“Even the retards are starting to figure it out.” (comment)—“In data we trust.” Priceonomics—“The Internet fails to scale gracefully.” Chris Ellis—“I want to be surprised by my own bot”—“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”... See more

aandrea

an incredible word spaghetti

tiny internets: sidewalks, geocaching, and more · tiny internets

Spencer Chang coda.io

sari

Humanity is capable of so much more.

oneproject.org

sari

"The core ideal of the Internet is that one trusts people, and that given an opportunity, people will find their way to be reasonably decent. I happily restate my loyalty to that ideal. It’s all we have." (Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?)

Here Lies the Internet, Murdered by Generative AI

Erik Hoel theintrinsicperspective.com

sari

my goal is simply to create a space to wander around

Morgan Harper Nichols • A Necessary Imagination

Keely Adler