Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Terry Warner
@tw1
It was a worldview that both resonated and broke with the New Left, for Brand rejected traditional politics and focused instead on what he called direct power—a focus on tools and skills for the individual—emerging from his early libertarian sympathies.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Matt Whalley
@mttwhlly
Perry Raskin
@perry
Shawn Powers
@smpowers
three decades since the FCC revoked the Fairness Doctrine (which required TV and radio stations to devote some of their programming to important issues of the day and air opposing views on those issues)
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Ali makes the case for a new Internet architecture and then declares that, in prototype, it has already been in place for three years, requiring only 44,344 lines of Python software language code. Google’s famously elegant Chrome browser, by comparison, took up 4,490,488 lines
George Gilder • Life After Google
Media Ecology
Justin M Piehowski • 1 card