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The Internet through my eyes

Israel • 2 cards

The internet doesn’t have to demand our presence the way it currently does. It shouldn’t be something we have to look at all time. If it wasn’t, maybe we’d finally be free to hang out. The first time I ever heard about Facebook, back in 2004, was from someone proudly declaring that she had just spent four hours using it. At the time, it was outrage... See more

Drew Austin • It's Time to Lie Down and Be Counted

Unless there’s something specifically about you or your job that requires it, there is nothing to be admired about being constantly connected, constantly potentially productive the second you open your eyes in the morning—and in my opinion, no one should accept this, not now, not ever. In the words of Othello: “Leave me but a little to myself.”

Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

the ~internet~

we’re all rotting and i need a breath of fresh air

réka • 84 cards

The root is simple: the internet is broken because the internet is a business. While the issues are various and complex, they are inextricable from the fact that the internet is owned by private firms and is run for profit. An internet owned by smaller, more entrepreneurial, more regulated firms will still be an internet run for profit. And an inte

Ben Tarnoff • Internet for the People

Hoe wil je leven op het internet?

Marieke van Dam • 15 cards

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An unsubscribe that I’m celebrating. Another community member who went through my digital detox and has “broken free from the internet” 👏 👏 👏

Break Free From the Internet substack.com

That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the “pathology of command and control.” Today, the same drive to centralize, control and extract has driven the internet to the same fate as the ravaged forests.

Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet

What’s more, nothing on social media belongs to us. Our art, our ideas and our relationships are reduced to data to be mined and exploited by tech corporations, sometimes even used to train A.I. models. We have no backups, either: Few people still keep address books or mailing lists, much less diaries or photo albums. When we lose access to social ... See more