dreaming of a better internet

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There is a healthy way to talk to each other that inspires, informs, empowers, and brings people together.

Be part of a better internet

Alex Dobrenko

A world fit for humans | Ben Sixsmith | The Critic Magazine

Ben Sixsmith thecritic.co.uk

alex

the internet is the greatest device for opening up the world ever devised. It is democratising and enabling. But that assumes its users draw on it to aid System 2 thinking. Plainly, there are times when we use it to inform key decisions – to find out about an illness, to research a holiday, to track a scientific breakthrough. But in the main the... See more

Will Hutton • We need a social media with heart that gives us time to think

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The Subversive Hyperlink

Jim Nielsen blog.jim-nielsen.com

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Subvert the status quo. Own a website. Make and share links.

and it's obvious -

that we all like computers,

- a lot -

in a super-creepy way,

and it is not a phase.

it's something that's really happening,

and it's going to continue.

and we can't stop.

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Alex Dobrenko

That private platforms such as Amazon’s Twitch, Twitter and Facebook now constitute the digital equivalents to public spheres is as much a political failure as one of our collective imagination.

Portable Multiplayer Miniverses • Modular and Portable Multiplayer Miniverses

Keely Adler

"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?)

when a website, especially one that invites mass participation, goes offline or executes a huge dump of its data and resources, it’s as if a smallish Library of Alexandria has been burned to the ground. Except unlike the burning of such a library, when a website folds, the ensuing commentary from tech blogs asks only why the company folded, or why... See more

Kate Wagner • 404 Page Not Found | Kate Wagner

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Platforms like TikTok and Instagram are engines of distraction and cultural rot. They stand in front of the more difficult but more rewarding aspects of life: deep work, intimate connections with friends and loved ones, focused attention for hobbies with intrinsic rewards. By training users to crave constant novelty and the immediate approval of... See more

Adam Singer • TikTok and Instagram are intellectual poison

ssari

"Irony is the song of a bird that has come to love its cage." - David Foster Wallace