Sam Liebeskind

The pattern is the same: the most sophisticated platforms are treating user behavior as sequences, not snapshots, recognizing that static embeddings miss the temporal dynamics and session context of how people actually use these products.

Asynchronous forms of engagement can be synchronized with regular weekly or daily reports provided by the platform that serve something of the function that “talk of the town” columns in local newspapers used to provide.

By continuing to pursue these lines of thought, we develop new ways of framing our interactions with the dead online, and may find pathways for breaking our calcified archival imaginaries and reimagine new ways of living with the data bodies we construct, inhabit, and inherit.

The city is a metaphor for home; just as we remove shoes to enter the sacred space of home, we remove our carapace to enter the sacred, enchanting, convivial space of our city home. Streets are now truly public spaces that support high concentrations of life– forests, gardens, and play space, and people move around primarily by foot... See more

Fuller blames this thinning on two factors. First, extreme partnership has led to “an intense focus” on specific political outcomes, rather than developing better democratic processes. Second, large private foundations and governments are putting money into their own agendas, rather than tools to empower everyday citizens.