networked worlds

This is where the labor issues of new media dovetail with those of warehouse workers and delivery drivers. Amazon's planned worker chat app, "Shout Outs," bans a long list of worker-friendly words, including "union," "harassment," "grievance," and "injustice."

“The model is the art work,”

So all you need to do is understand the mechanics of the software, and the rest is pretty much collage. You don't have to actually build anything. All you have to do is paint the landscape in your own colors. It's perfectly possible to make a very professional game with an army of one. I simply call on a friend and collaborator who knows how to... See more

Despite its gravitational pull, the story behind decentralization and the rise of crypto was just one island in the new internet archipelago.

I love this mix of drama where life is lost, erosion is sad, mass extinction is terrifying; there's a creative beauty in this process of death and rebirth where the present becomes the compost of the future.

The internet’s real magic is that it gives us the power to see what the previous systems did not want or allow us to see: how connected we all are. Yes, we are all unique individuals, but between us are islands of connection whose depths carry infinite potential and the path to a new world.