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What would the world be like if Zuck had paid attention to his Facebook comments and read David Graeber?
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Links & Sundry
A collection of 71 issues
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?
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.
Going solar
The 'solar' in solarpunk is both a literal reference to renewable energy and a metaphor for decentralized, locally controlled, but interconnected resilience.
A corrective to the disinfo corrective
Maybe the people who are trying to understand why conspiracies take root online are themselves part of a giant conspiracy to prop up the online advertising economy. Personally, I think the truth might be weirder and a bit less nihilistic.
NSF...
There's only one search result for 'marxist' on PornHub.
4 x 8
About a month ago we switched to a 4-day, 8 hour per day workweek. Here are some reflections from the first few weeks.