Social media violates my psychological sovereignty, strips me of my freedom to direct my attention mindfully, and forces me to engage with information I do not want to engage with.| ankursethi.com
The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.| wreckage/salvage
Once, Saint-Exupéry “circled the airport for an hour after returning, so that he could finish reading a novel.” I deeply empathize.| FJORD.STYLE
Who should do the heavy, tricky, fraught work of making and keeping our networks good? How should they work? To whom should they be accountable, and how can “accountability” be redeemed from its dissipated state and turned into something with both teeth and discretion?| erinkissane.com
If I ask myself a question like "I'd like to buy an SD card; who do I trust to sell me a real SD card and not some fake, Amazon or my local Best Buy?", of course the answer is that I trust my local Best Buy1 more than Amazon, which is notorious for selling counterfeit SD cards. And if I ask who do I trust more, my local reputable electronics shop (Memory Express, B&H Photo, etc.), I trust my local reputable electronics shop more. Not only are they less likely to sell me a counterfeit than Bes...| danluu.com
Meta's Threads service is joining the Fediverse, and I think there are some things about Meta—and about Fediverse mechanics—that it's important to include in that conversation.| erinkissane.com
I wrote so many posts that that my posts needed a post. Sorry about that. All four posts are now up: Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV. The| erinkissane.com
