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Mainstream news cycles rarely last more than a few hours, and their narratives are constantly shifting. They don’t tend to give a big-picture sense of where we came from or where we’re going. Internet subcultures, by contrast, are building grand narratives and meme worlds that help people feel their way through the chaos that’s currently unfolding.
How Digital Media Distorts Our Sense of Time
aaronzlewis.com
I may have been an avid macOS user once, but in the future I will seek to come as close as possible to using my computing platform as a tool, rather than to become a tool for those who seek to profit on others in cyberspace.
Avoiding Distractions in Modern Computing
Thoughts on Security
It claims too much, I think, in painting a picture of hapless individuals at the mercy of large tech companies. While the compulsion and force of habit is strong, I think for most of us it falls short of being usefully called addiction. Consequently, we have more agency over the conduct of our lives than a dopamine culture framing seems to suggest. But if we have more agency than we’re given credit for, then we also have more responsibility. It may be tempting to believe we have less agency than we, in fact, possess precisely because it frees us from the burden of responsibility.
Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
The Convivial Society
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