Keely Adler

I understand digital gardens as online spaces where many people are coming together to tend to seeds, which can be understood as content. The container that digital gardens are held in is a commitment to sustainability, pluralism, and cyclical growth. It entails adaptation and a culture of learning.

Nothing about the Internet is fixed, permanent, or inevitable. It is malleable, shape-shifting, and constantly evolving.

Deep history is history viewed across time. That sounds a bit tautological, right? That's because, usually, deep history is what we implicitly mean when we use the word 'history' on its own.

These reforms invert the underlying epistemology of policy. The goal is no longer to eliminate uncertainty before deciding but to institutionalize the capacity to decide under uncertainty . Decision-making becomes less about prediction and more about responsiveness — an operating rhythm aligned with the metabolism of a living system.

In this frame,

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As Verses’ ‘Toward a Digital Pluriverse’ elaborates, “These advocates aimed to counter the universal–not with a disregard of all things universal, but with an embrace of ‘many universals’. This is not a rejection of the necessity of scale; instead, it embraces federation and branching and requires many worlds to exist ‘at scale’—pluricultures over... See more

before the advent of electronic communication, the regulation of information was partly a function of our being bodies in place. Immediacy was structured by place rather than time.