I meant to write something else and this is what came out. It is very weird to be writing about this again.
the chronically online will become a new underclass
Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet ‘Died’ Five Years Ago
A conspiracy theory spreading online says the whole internet is now fake. It’s ridiculous, but possibly not that ridiculous?
Dripline: Fixing the 'dumb opinions' problem: Addison, Johnson, Walpole | Hypha
What do 18th century writers say about posting online?
Digital Sovereignty
Digital sovereignty has a bad reputation. In internet governance circles, sovereignty is considered awkward enough to be referred to by as the "s-word." It is often associated with misguided attempts at returning to the era of national champions, like building a French search engine or a European Google, or worse with the eternal boogeyman that is the "splinternet." It doesn't have to be this way!
Manifesto: An Online Creative's Social Web Dethroning - HK★TMK
"Oh great, now he's writing manifestos…" Don't worry. It's just a personal one to solidify and manifest how I want to use the Social Web once my detox concludes.
W Social is a textbook case for everything wrong with digital sovereignty
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. This saying is attributed to the famous socialist (and theoretical physicist) Albert Einstein but actually traces back to novelist Rita Mae Brown. I have been thinking about this saying a lot lately. The reason is
Lisa Nakamura: The internet is a trash fire. Here's how to fix it.
Life on the internet is real life, and we need to stop pretending that what happens online doesn't matter, says digital media researcher Lisa Nakamura. In this timely talk, she explains the steps we can take to correct the toxic behaviors that have become common online -- and help make the internet a place where we all feel safe.
toward a new aesthetic
Lately I’ve been thinking about what being online looks like. The actual look of it. The aesthetic. As I continue to think and write and talk about escaping...
toward a new aesthetic
Lately I’ve been thinking about what being online looks like. The actual look of it. The aesthetic. As I continue to think and write and talk about escaping...
Our AI Philosophy | Typefully
Social media runs on an implicit contract: I write something, you follow me, you read it, and you trust it came from a human mind. AI writing is curr…
Weaver - Long-form writing
I grew up, like a lot of people on Bluesky, in the era of the internet where most of your online social interactions took place via text. I had a MySpace account, MSN messenger and Google Chat, I first got on Facebook back when they required a school email to sign up, I had a Tumblr, though not a LiveJournal. I was super into reddit for a long time. Big fan of Fanfiction.net and later Archive of Our Own.
“The internet represents a closing of the parenthesis and a return to older models of understanding. Human consciousness in the digital age, which de-emphasizes the categorization that marked the age of print, makes us think in a way that is reminiscent of a medieval peasant.”
The Gutenberg Parenthesis
web.mit.eduI wrote something about atproto from the perspective of having lived through the early days of the internet. timtrautmann.com/blog/the-nerds-are-building-a…
The nerds are building a new internet, and I could feel it in the room
timtrautmann.combeing utopian about the web is very 90s but this is like everything people dreamed the web would be. I need to read more about atproto asap overreacted.io/open-social/
Cosmik Network
Semble alpha is now open! ✨ Check it out at semble.so More details in our leaflet pub! (link in next post > )
Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior
A collection of reading and resources around patterns of operations online intended to disrupt networks, scam users, and otherwise affect the health of society and social media Should focus on theory and practice but not tools
The Internet, and how we've developed with it
Not "doomscrolling has killed our lives". But how, looking back, our enjoyment of the internet has shaped our experience of life.
We can have a different web
My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
VC&G | » My memories of what life was like before the Internet
Habbo Hotel Memories - Sneer Campaign
blogs.loc.gov
My old SoundCloud page is a time capsule
Uncovering Coordinated Networks on Social Media: Methods and Case Studies
A General Method to Find Highly Coordinating Communities in Social Media through Inferred Interaction Links
Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in the Run-Up to the 2024 U.S. Election
Disrupting Dark Networks
Ecosystem or Echo-System? Exploring Content Sharing across Alternative Media Domains
↳ Slopaganda: The Inauthentic YouTube Network Selling Secession to Albertans — Canadian Digital Media Research Network
