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Pluralistic: My McLuhan lecture on enshittification (30 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net
A great breakdown of enshittification and the cures to this horrible disease
Jonathan Harris: Different Ways of Looking
youtube.comCuration has replaced creation
Video Games and Engineering Virtual Worlds | Contrary
contrary.comA great intro into the history of video games from a creation perspective.
A glitch is a rupture from existing rules
I had countless conversations with reporters in the pre-Elon Musk Twitter era who could not fathom doing their jobs without the site, who insisted that Twitter was where sources and scoops and true insight lay. It was utterly wrong and also completely understandable in a way that made arguing about it futile: Twitter could feel like a direct connec... See more
Midnight | Coding a More Creative and Playful Web
midnight.agency
“Code isn’t destined to be serious”
“Journalists are in general a bunch of insecure overachievers, so being in one ‘room’ with your ‘peers’ giving you constant feedback and information creates a truly awful petri dish in which the most terrible forms of groupthink thrive,” says Polgreen. “It can be very hard to resist for reporters, which makes it tough for editors to reorient their ... See more
Our memories are now contingent on technology
Can we imagine what will come after the subscription economy? Will it just be a case of bundeling everything up again?
Punk Technologies are technologies in a broad sense of the term; any knowledge, technique, or tool developed or designed to augment, assist, or adapt cultural or individual norms and practices and/or make use of surrounding resources can be considered a technology. A book is a technology the same as a robot.