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The space of non-place creates neither singular identity nor relations; only solitude and similitude,” Augé writes. He describes “the passive joys of identity-loss.” Even the magazine the fictional businessman reads on the plane references “the homogenization of needs and consumption patterns” in the “international business environment.”

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

When I asked Singer why the late two-thousands were a time of great ferment for applied consequentialism, he cited the Internet: “People will say, ‘I’ve had these ideas since I was a teen-ager, and I thought it was just me,’ and then they got online and found that there were others.”

Gideon Lewis-Kraus • The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism

The process of enclosure, of carrying out our activities within these private platforms, changes us, including how we relate to one another and the underlying purpose of those relations.

Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

The Age of Everything Culture Is Here

Jason Parham wired.com

Kleinberg was trying to understand network behavior. Page and Brin were building something.

Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

In 2021, when the archive celebrated its 25th anniversary, Mr. Kahle talked about the fate of the internet in an era of megacorporations: “Will this be our medium or will it be theirs? Will it be for a small controlling set of organizations or will it be a common good, a public resource?

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Again, I want to be very clear that these neighborhoods are not some hell on earth, and anyone from the rest of world would be smitten to have the chance to live in them. As I wrote above, if an average African, Asian, or Latin American asked my advice I would tell them to move there. It would be downright weird of me to tell them otherwise, given ... See more

Chris Arnade • A brief foray into Dallas, missing Kampala, and some thoughts on over-tourism

We showed our Moldovan visas, and that was when we were told that we were no longer in Moldova. They showed us the local passport—an old Soviet document—and yelled something in Russian. Marko translated: They wanted us to drive back to the military checkpoint on the bridge we had crossed three police bribes ago and obtain the proper documents. “I w

Neil Strauss • The Game

tiny internets is a research inquiry attempting to answer the question:

What does a more natural, soft, and quiet internet look like, one where the public spaces are actively shaped by us to not only use but live in?

And also

How do we facilitate serendipitous intimacy on the internet?

How do we make people aware that they are co-inhabiting a space