Sublime

Faye Resnick said that Nicole tried desperately, but she was never able to gain control of her life. This is the saddest thing, on par with the sadness of her death. A woman who was never really able to live her own life — she was seduced by a charismatic narcissist at age 17, and everything thenceforth was part of him. She told Resnick, “I was... See more

- "the concrete practices of the tech industry now structure identity and individuality in ways that support its own hegemony. While it presents endless avenues for expression, it sees us as wholly reducible to market logic, where we are real to the degree that our consumption habits are rational. This vision of selfhood promotes uniformity and... See more

when a website, especially one that invites mass participation, goes offline or executes a huge dump of its data and resources, it’s as if a smallish Library of Alexandria has been burned to the ground. Except unlike the burning of such a library, when a website folds, the ensuing commentary from tech blogs asks only why the company folded, or why... See more