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It was actually the historian Peter Turchin who first got me to believe that social unrest is a macro variable — something big that happens to a whole society at once, and whose effects trickle down into almost every nook and cranny of the nation.
The Chaos Has Arrived
Noah Smith
Something may yet survive the fire that would burn it down: social networks, the services’ overlooked, molten core. It was never a terrible idea, at least, to use computers to connect to one another on occasion, for justified reasons, and in moderation (although the risk of instrumentalizing one another was present from the outset).
The Age of Social Media Is Ending
Ian Bogost
The ‘hacker culture’ is actually a loosely networked collection of subcultures that is nevertheless conscious of some important shared experiences, shared roots, and shared values. It has its own myths, heroes, villains, folk epics, in-jokes, taboos, and dreams.
Chapter 1. Hacker Slang and Hacker Culture
Eric S. Raymond
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