Synapticism

I went looking for something from my email archives circa 2013 and was struck by how regularly I corresponded with so many people back in those days.

Simon Willison describes annotated links as one of several forms of “low stakes and high value” writing in My approach to running a link blog.

Elevator pitch: a social media platform where you connect with friends and family to see what they’re up to and keep in touch.

Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of me…

In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true… ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism,…

Nearly every major platform is converging on the TikTok model: short video content from people you probably don’t know or follow curated by an algorithmic timeline.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.

In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.

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