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  • November 28th 2022
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    We cannot make social media good, because it is fundamentally bad, deep in its very structure. All we can do is hope that it withers away, and play our small part in helping abandon it.

    According to Ian Bogost from The Atlantic The Age of Social Media Is Ending. Yes, please!

    theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074

  • November 21st 2022
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    © Billie Eilish (via YouTube)

    Billie and Finneas together are always a win.

    billieeilish.lnk.to/GuitarSongs

  • November 21st 2022
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    © ECM Records (via YouTube)

    Bordeaux Concert is a special document from Keith Jarrett’s last European tour. Each of Jarrett’s 2016 solo piano concerts had its own strikingly distinct character, and in Bordeaux the lyrical impulse is to the fore.

    ecm.lnk.to/BordeauxConcertID

  • November 12th 2022
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    © Amistat (via YouTube)

    Please treat yourself kind
    Give yourself a gentle year
    The next lines we’ll receive from you will tell the storm has cleared

    Folks, we’ve entered melancholic-music-season again! Let’s celebrate with this hauntingly beautiful stripped-down version of Brave by Amistat recorded during a Live Session From Home.

    recordjet.promo.li/Brave-EP

  • When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck.

    — Peter Funch on inventing, filed under well said, November 5th 2022
  • November 5th 2022
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    The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressing climate change and other pressing planetary constraints.

    A wonderful plea by freelance journalist Alex Vuocolo for The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance.

    noemamag.com/the-disappearing-art-of-maintenance

  • November 5th 2022
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    Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.

    The Science of What Makes People Care is part of an online series called ‘Essentials of Social Innovation’ published by Stanford Social Innovation Review by Stanford University. There’s a lot of great lessons to be found in this “starter kit for leaders of social change”.

    ssir.org/articles/entry/the_science_of_what_makes_people_care

  • November 5th 2022
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    What if the future isn’t Artificial General Intelligence and 100x increases in computing power? What if it’s cheap-and-flexible mesh networks? What if the future isn’t replacing untrustworthy institutions with blockchain governance? What if it’s replacing untrustworthy global and national institutions with revitalized local trust? What if the metaverse isn’t the future because, in the future, people commit themselves to improving and monitoring their vulnerable surroundings?

    Interesting essay –with a bunch of hyperlinks to some other great resources– about Tech futurism’s blind spot written by Dave Karpf, a Professor at the School of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University.

    davekarpf.substack.com/p/tech-futurisms-blind-spot

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