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Extinction Internet
Geert Lovink discusses the decline of internet culture, highlighting issues like entropy and platform dominance, while emphasizing the need for alternatives, degrowth, and a collective reimagining of digital spaces for a sustainable future.
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The Anthropic Economic Index
anthropic.com
Its scholars study many different kinds of cultural groups—from hunter-gatherer clans to corporations to nations—investigating cognitive structures, social structures, biases, and behaviors.
Michael Morris • Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together
People who spend a lot of time exploring these subcultures feel like they can see into the future, and for good reason. What happens online often shows up in the headlines weeks, months, or even years later. The internet has become the petri dish of culture — the soil in which new movements and novel conversations find root
Aaron Z. Lewis • The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
Unlike the main public internet, which runs on the (human) protocol of “users” clicking on links on public pages/apps maintained by “publishers”, the cozyweb works on the (human) protocol of everybody cutting-and-pasting bits of text, images, URLs, and screenshots across live streams. Much of this content is poorly addressable, poorly searchable, a... See more