Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Raghavan & Schneier, "Seeing like a Data Structure"| cgbrooke.substack.com
James Scott's Seeing Like a State| cgbrooke.substack.com
Once upon a time, there was content| cgbrooke.substack.com
The internet is no place to hang out| kneelingbus.substack.com
Like this newsletter? You should listen to the Better Offline episode! In the first quarter of 2024, Meta made $36.45 billion dollars - $12.37 billion dollars of which was pure profit. Though the company no longer reports daily active users, it now uses another metric: “family daily active| Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
James C. Scott’s fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, examines how, across dozens of domains, ranging from agriculture and forestry, to urban planning and census-taking, a very predictable failure pattern keeps recurring. The pictures below, from the book (used with permission from the author) graphically and literally illustrate the central concept in this failure pattern, an idea called “legibility.”| ribbonfarm
