The bigger the group, the more rules they need. Can we do better than written agreements?| Medium
How did the internet disrupt 20th century timekeeping systems and spark an insurgence of alternative historical narratives? How do old media institutions try (and fail) to keep up with the narratives of online subcultures? How does the immediate accessibility of so many alt histories undermine our ability to create shared visions of the future? And how might a more ecological awareness of the internet help us adapt to our disorienting digital time machines?| aaronzlewis.com
Headless brands are decentralized consensus systems which facilitate emergent narratives without centralized oversight.| otherinter.net
Paid groups, bespoke social networks, and the meaning of community for internet-native businesses.| subpixel.space
You’ve heard me talk about crash-only programming, right? It’s a programming paradigm for critical infrastructure systems, where there is — by design — no graceful way to shut down. A program can only crash and try to recover from a crashed state, which might well be impossible. I came up with a term for the human version: beef-only thinking. | ribbonfarm