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Giving Up On Privacy
Giving Up On Privacy
Many people have a strategy for dealing with online services: don't put anything up that you would be ashamed of if it became public. They don't trust those services to actually keep their information private. I agree, but I don't think they go far enough: I don't trust the future to keep anything private. Sometime around middle school I gave up on privacy. I'd just read a book, I think it was d
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Giving Up On Privacy
Bullshit Software Projects - Earthly Blog
Bullshit Software Projects - Earthly Blog
I was frying a couple of dozen walnut crunch when I first got in trouble at Tim Horton’s.Tim Horton’s is a donut and coffee place, and I worked the...
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Bullshit Software Projects - Earthly Blog
Human Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War
Human Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War
In a scorching, searching guide to saving our souls from the digital apocalypse, James Poulos shows how the swarm of programs and devices unleashed by our leaders has transformed our lives and defied our dreams, throwing the future into terrifying doubt. Rising above the din of the discourse, he reveals how the first g
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Human Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War
How the Blog Broke the Web - Stacking the Bricks
How the Blog Broke the Web - Stacking the Bricks
I first got online in 1993, back when the Web had a capital letter — three, in fact — and long before irony stretched its legs and unbuttoned its flan
And it really was both new and cool to use a 1-frame-a-minute webcam to spy on a coffee machine on another continent or click a Big Red Button That Does Nothing.
Back then, we didn’t have platforms or feeds or social networks or… blogs. We had homepages.
There were no databases to configure. No scripts to install. No plugins, no security patches. There were no cookies. No iframes, no web-first scripting languages, no web apps.
A well-organized homepage was a sign of personal and professional pride
Dates didn’t matter all that much. Content lasted longer; there was less of it. Older content remained in view, too, because the dominant metaphor was table of contents rather than diary entry.
That’s what they were called then… web diaries. (The name weblog came a few years later, as some of their writers moved away from extremely personal topics.)
Each would-be Netizen had to bushwhack their own path.
You didn’t reload a homepage every day in pursuit of novelty. (That’s what Netscape’s What’s Cool was for!)
Not everyone had the desire to publish their angsty poetry, sexcapades, or surfing habits on a daily basis; the other limiter on chrono-content was the sheer time and energy it required. Diarying was a helluva lot of work.
Suddenly people weren’t creating homepages or even web pages, but they were writing web content in form fields and text areas inside a web page.
Suddenly, instead of building their own system, they were working inside one.
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How the Blog Broke the Web - Stacking the Bricks
The River – Medium
The River – Medium
The river is a metaphor for a journey of self-discovery. You sit on the shores of the river, wanting to explore, but you are pulled back by safety, the pressure to conform, and other cultural tethers. Take the leap with me.
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The River – Medium
Nick Land’s ‘Meltdown’
Nick Land’s ‘Meltdown’
John Kaminski is a prominent American Author and Critic seeking to expose the truth about what is happening in the world today.
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Nick Land’s ‘Meltdown’