dreaming of a better internet

"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?)

a little easter egg. if you find this card, here’s your free digital version of Sublime’s first zine:

Can you Imagine? A library of possibilities for reimagining the Internet

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

The Internet fails to scale gracefully.

social media today doesn’t mirror public opinion, it manipulates it

"We choose to build a second brain because it lets us garden our thinking over days, months, and years. Where social media is compulsive, tools for thought are reflective. Where social media is here and now, tools for thought dwell in the long now. Tools for thought slowly build compounding momentum through low, slow feedback loops that point us in