Meta
What would the world be like if Zuck had paid attention to his Facebook comments and read David Graeber?
Gabriel Stein
Just Before Dawn
Is not having to think about how your sewage gets disposed of worth submitting to the rule of the state?
Philips
Modern e-commerce is pathological; an example.
Killing God, again
What happens to religion in a Utopia?
Reclaiming rye
Is sourdough goyish? A personal essay.
A nice pairing
The dark, moody undertones of Chris Hayes' piece on internet fame go nicely with the bright, yet restrained optimism of Stasavage and Schneider's application of early democracies to the internet.
Under review
Nothing to see here, just Nature totally slipping into the business of curating preprints.
Solarpunk reading list
My favorites so far. Extremely incomplete!
Going solar
The 'solar' in solarpunk is both a literal reference to renewable energy and a metaphor for decentralized, locally controlled, but interconnected resilience.
Token retreat
Let's talk when the metaverse can directly feed the hungry, house people, or remove carbon from the atmosphere.