How we got here
early internet writing: pandora’s vox: on community in cyberspace by humdog (1994)
when i went into cyberspace i went into it thinking that it was a place like any other place and that it would be a human interaction like any other human interaction. i was wrong when i thought that. it was a terrible mistake.
the very first understanding that i had
... See more“i have seen many people spill their guts on-line, and i did so myself until, at last, i began to see that i had commodified myself.”
One consistent tension I’m navigating:
The pull to be at the vanguard of technology (learn Claude Code, install OpenClaw, vibe code everything!) and hurriedly experiment and drop ~$50 worth of credits on a project while asking Claude for step by step instructions like I’m disarming a bomb (“which wire,... See more
Camilo Moreno-Salamancasubstack.comIf you feel crazy it’s not really your fault but that is all the more reason to make it your responsibility to feel better and not seek the cures from the same sources that make us sick.
Allegra Preuss • DON'T TAKE THE BAIT
“Franchise thinking is the tendency to fit everything into ideas that already have names, audiences, and tribal alignment rather than to look for new ones.
Dawkins gave us "memes" — ideas that spread like genes. Franchise ideas are memes that became infrastructure: narrative containers so big and vague they can hold anything. Memes are small, neutral, catchy. Franchise ideas are big, totalizing, and moralizing. Memes spread because they're catchy; franchise ideas spread because they're also safe.”
