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Alan Watts and Joseph Campbell, though they approach the subject from slightly different philosophical angles, both speak to the idea of innate human expression as a fundamental manifestation of life. While neither explicitly focuses on “baby utterances” in their most well-known works, their broader philosophies resonate with the idea that early
... See more“There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory
― Richard Powers, The Overstory
The Overstory Quotes by Richard Powers
Seeing like a military complex?
The catch is that it’s incredibly difficult to assign comparative value to those things to which we are emotionally connected. What monetary value would you assign to your closest friend? The question feels absurd because you cannot put a value on something you are unwilling to part with. The things we are unwilling to part with are often those... See more
Rebecca • Quantifying the Gift
Lulu
The first one is what gives you a right to exist. There is already 40,000 companies doing something like you, and then there's 15 companies doing what sounds exactly like what you're doing, and then there's three other companies that are literally doing exactly what you're doing, at least to the outside eyes. Why don't you just go join them?... See more
The first one is what gives you a right to exist. There is already 40,000 companies doing something like you, and then there's 15 companies doing what sounds exactly like what you're doing, and then there's three other companies that are literally doing exactly what you're doing, at least to the outside eyes. Why don't you just go join them?... See more
There are only two factors that limit the potential for interesting communities to arise: the availability of people searching for new communities to join, and the ability for those people to gather and do interesting things together. Both of these things are on the rise.
Linus Lee • The future of community: a future for communities | thesephist.com
Social media is similar to sharecropping :
- We’re "renting" space on a platform we don’t own
- We’re paying for that space by becoming “the product” whose attention is sold to the highest ads bidder
- Our attention is also being usurped by the makers of the platform and what they’ve programmed their algorithm to show us, and
- Our data is being
Regina Anaejionu • Social Media = Sharecropping? — Regina Anaejionu
Rewilding the internet is more than a metaphor. It’s a framework and plan. It gives us fresh eyes for the wicked problem of extraction and control, and new means and allies to fix it. It recognizes that ending internet monopolies isn’t just an intellectual problem. It’s an emotional one. It answers questions like how do we keep going when the... See more