new internet

Exploring the internet together should be like exploring a vast old library with your friends. Wandering down different shelves, skimming the pages that catch your eye, and occasionally one of you hollers in a whispering voice, "come check this out!"

Azlen • Tweet

our internet [tiny internets 01]

Spencer spencerchang.me

The timeline isn’t settled.

The @-mention isn’t settled.

Nothing is settled. It’s 2003 again!

Robin Sloan • A Year of New Avenues

It's interesting to see how many people put "Twitter refugee" or something similar in their Bsky bios. Have people done that before when migrating to new platforms? I don't recall seeing "Friendster refugee" or "MySpace refugee" on newer platforms in the 00s.

Annalee Newitz (@annaleen.bsky.social)

we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars

Maxim Leyzerovich x.com

The internet wants to be fragmented - by Noah Smith The internet wants to be fragmented

Noah Smith noahpinion.blog

I do think that the end really is here for the blogosphere though. This time it really is different. I’ve weathered many ups and downs in the blogosphere over my 17 years in it, but now it feels like the end of the blogging era. And what has emerged to take its place is not the blogosphere (and really shouldn’t try to be), even though parts of it... See more

Venkatesh Rao • Ribbonfarm Is Retiring

Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year Is…

nytimes.com

An App Can Be a Home-Cooked Meal

Robin Sloan robinsloan.com