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30 years of the web down under: how Australians made the early internet their own

theconversation.com · Sep 22

What did Australians do online in the 1990s? Shared bioinformatics data, made cyberfeminist zines, cruised the information superhighway …

Shared by @rifter and 13 others.
Cainmark 🚲 (@cainmark) · Sep 22
🔁 @internetarchive:

"Understanding online history can be particularly difficult because many sites have long-since disappeared. However, archiving efforts like those of the Internet Archive and the National Library of Australia make it possible to look back and see how much things have changed, what concerns are familiar, and remember the everyday people who helped transform the internet from a niche academic network to a mass medium." - Kieran Hegarty in The Conversation: theconversation.com/30-years-o

Lisa Melton (@lisamelton) · Sep 22
🔁 @internetarchive:

"Understanding online history can be particularly difficult because many sites have long-since disappeared. However, archiving efforts like those of the Internet Archive and the National Library of Australia make it possible to look back and see how much things have changed, what concerns are familiar, and remember the everyday people who helped transform the internet from a niche academic network to a mass medium." - Kieran Hegarty in The Conversation: theconversation.com/30-years-o

rickf \m/ 😎 \m/ (@rickf) · Sep 22
🔁 @internetarchive:

"Understanding online history can be particularly difficult because many sites have long-since disappeared. However, archiving efforts like those of the Internet Archive and the National Library of Australia make it possible to look back and see how much things have changed, what concerns are familiar, and remember the everyday people who helped transform the internet from a niche academic network to a mass medium." - Kieran Hegarty in The Conversation: theconversation.com/30-years-o

Tim Chambers (@tchambers) · Sep 22
🔁 @internetarchive:

"Understanding online history can be particularly difficult because many sites have long-since disappeared. However, archiving efforts like those of the Internet Archive and the National Library of Australia make it possible to look back and see how much things have changed, what concerns are familiar, and remember the everyday people who helped transform the internet from a niche academic network to a mass medium." - Kieran Hegarty in The Conversation: theconversation.com/30-years-o

GoNancyGo (@ncw413) · Sep 22
🔁 @internetarchive:

"Understanding online history can be particularly difficult because many sites have long-since disappeared. However, archiving efforts like those of the Internet Archive and the National Library of Australia make it possible to look back and see how much things have changed, what concerns are familiar, and remember the everyday people who helped transform the internet from a niche academic network to a mass medium." - Kieran Hegarty in The Conversation: theconversation.com/30-years-o

Annemarie Bridy (@AnnemarieBridy) · Sep 22
🔁 @internetarchive:

"Understanding online history can be particularly difficult because many sites have long-since disappeared. However, archiving efforts like those of the Internet Archive and the National Library of Australia make it possible to look back and see how much things have changed, what concerns are familiar, and remember the everyday people who helped transform the internet from a niche academic network to a mass medium." - Kieran Hegarty in The Conversation: theconversation.com/30-years-o

rifter (@rifter) · Sep 22
🔁 @internetarchive:

"Understanding online history can be particularly difficult because many sites have long-since disappeared. However, archiving efforts like those of the Internet Archive and the National Library of Australia make it possible to look back and see how much things have changed, what concerns are familiar, and remember the everyday people who helped transform the internet from a niche academic network to a mass medium." - Kieran Hegarty in The Conversation: theconversation.com/30-years-o

Tucker Carlson's Nuts (@jstatepost) · Sep 22
🔁 @internetarchive:

"Understanding online history can be particularly difficult because many sites have long-since disappeared. However, archiving efforts like those of the Internet Archive and the National Library of Australia make it possible to look back and see how much things have changed, what concerns are familiar, and remember the everyday people who helped transform the internet from a niche academic network to a mass medium." - Kieran Hegarty in The Conversation: theconversation.com/30-years-o

Judy Olo (@JudyOlo) · Sep 22
🔁 @internetarchive:

"Understanding online history can be particularly difficult because many sites have long-since disappeared. However, archiving efforts like those of the Internet Archive and the National Library of Australia make it possible to look back and see how much things have changed, what concerns are familiar, and remember the everyday people who helped transform the internet from a niche academic network to a mass medium." - Kieran Hegarty in The Conversation: theconversation.com/30-years-o

The Age of the Grift Shift

tante.cc · Sep 21

For a book proposal I am currently working on (German, no proposal isn’t done yet because I keep reworking stuff, my agent hates me) I am thinking a lot about late stage capitalism and technologies, about how the kinda terminal economic system shapes the technologies it brings forward etc. And ...

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Christian Tietze (@ctietze) · Sep 22
🔁 @chrisg:

"The Grift Shift keeps going because we are not taking technological developments seriously as political forces"

From @tante 's latest, The Age Of The Grift Shift

tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of

Go on, give it a read, it's good.

rhetorical answers (@swordplay) · Sep 22
🔁 @yuliyan:

"Content” is an absolute abstraction, shedding everything specific about the objects it references. All meaning (and everything that goes beyond the most literal output, the most simplistic view on a created artifact) is stripped. No longer are people writers or filmmakers or musicians or whatever: They are “content creators " - @tante

Thanks for gracefully pinpointing my dissonance towards the term "content creator".

tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of

lime with barcode (@scanlime) · Sep 22
🔁 @yuliyan:

"Content” is an absolute abstraction, shedding everything specific about the objects it references. All meaning (and everything that goes beyond the most literal output, the most simplistic view on a created artifact) is stripped. No longer are people writers or filmmakers or musicians or whatever: They are “content creators " - @tante

Thanks for gracefully pinpointing my dissonance towards the term "content creator".

tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of

Jacky is smothering the grass! (@jalcine) · Sep 22
🔁 @yuliyan:

"Content” is an absolute abstraction, shedding everything specific about the objects it references. All meaning (and everything that goes beyond the most literal output, the most simplistic view on a created artifact) is stripped. No longer are people writers or filmmakers or musicians or whatever: They are “content creators " - @tante

Thanks for gracefully pinpointing my dissonance towards the term "content creator".

tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of

tante (@tante) · Sep 22
🔁 @yuliyan:

"Content” is an absolute abstraction, shedding everything specific about the objects it references. All meaning (and everything that goes beyond the most literal output, the most simplistic view on a created artifact) is stripped. No longer are people writers or filmmakers or musicians or whatever: They are “content creators " - @tante

Thanks for gracefully pinpointing my dissonance towards the term "content creator".

tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of

Sören (@chucker) · Sep 22
🔁 @yuliyan:

"Content” is an absolute abstraction, shedding everything specific about the objects it references. All meaning (and everything that goes beyond the most literal output, the most simplistic view on a created artifact) is stripped. No longer are people writers or filmmakers or musicians or whatever: They are “content creators " - @tante

Thanks for gracefully pinpointing my dissonance towards the term "content creator".

tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of

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Depredations and depravities reign in this week’s Wheel of Time

arstechnica.com · Sep 22

The shadow rises, the Seanchan strengthen, and our characters face desperation.

A Beginning, Not a Decline: Colette on the Splendor of Autumn and the Autumn of Life

themarginalian.org · Sep 22

In praise of “the gaiety of those who have nothing more to lose and so excel at giving.”

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Linkfest #11: Oyster Insomnia, the "Mel Spectogram", and Why Antarctic Researchers Are Developing Their Own Accent

buttondown.email · Sep 21

Welcome to the latest edition of the Linkfest! Thank you for being a subscriber; if you’re enjoying it, spread the word – it’s a pay-what-you can signup...

Shared by @clive and 3 others.
JeanEvergreen (@JeanEvergreen) · Sep 21
🔁 @clive:

Okay people 📢

It's time for THE OPPOSITE OF DOOMSCROLLING 🌞

The latest edition of my "Linkfest" newsletter just dropped 📬

Read it for free here, subscribe via pay-what-you-want: buttondown.email/clivethompson

Includes:

🦪 Oyster insomnia
👮 the TSA's rules for lightsabers
📊 Harry Styles and the "Mel Spectrogram"
♟️ "Conway's Game of Chess"

... and other delights TOO NUMEROUS TO COUNT

Clive Thompson (@clive) · Sep 22
🔁 @markhurst:

I like how @clive describes what's changed in search UX:

"For their first 25 years of existence, Internet search engines functioned as librarians. Their goal was to point us to a resource that we could ourselves ingest and learn from.

"But now, Ellandorff observes, search is becoming more like a doctor [meaning, it just gives an answer without pointers to further context]."

Read the whole piece in section 7 of Clive's recent linkfest:

buttondown.email/clivethompson

Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) · Sep 22
🔁 @clive:

Okay people 📢

It's time for THE OPPOSITE OF DOOMSCROLLING 🌞

The latest edition of my "Linkfest" newsletter just dropped 📬

Read it for free here, subscribe via pay-what-you-want: buttondown.email/clivethompson

Includes:

🦪 Oyster insomnia
👮 the TSA's rules for lightsabers
📊 Harry Styles and the "Mel Spectrogram"
♟️ "Conway's Game of Chess"

... and other delights TOO NUMEROUS TO COUNT

anilmc (@anilmc) · Sep 21
🔁 @clive:

Okay people 📢

It's time for THE OPPOSITE OF DOOMSCROLLING 🌞

The latest edition of my "Linkfest" newsletter just dropped 📬

Read it for free here, subscribe via pay-what-you-want: buttondown.email/clivethompson

Includes:

🦪 Oyster insomnia
👮 the TSA's rules for lightsabers
📊 Harry Styles and the "Mel Spectrogram"
♟️ "Conway's Game of Chess"

... and other delights TOO NUMEROUS TO COUNT

Worth reading

There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever

smithsonianmag.com · Sep 22

A new movie sets its doomed entrepreneurs amidst 17th-century “tulipmania”—but historians of the phenomenon have their own bubble to burst

Shared by @topstories and one other.
Glenn Fleishman (@glennf) · Sep 22

@gruber Tulipmania actually had rational components: the tulips were not worthless—they were highly valuable commodities (people paid a lot for the flowers) and it was apparently heavily exaggerated. The example of Tulipmania is kind of like the McDonald's burnt-by-coffee case, in which the woman wound up with permanent injuries and collected relatively little. smithsonianmag.com/history/the vox.com/policy-and-politics/20

And a McDonald's franchise allegedly just did it again: washingtonpost.com/nation/2023

Ode to the Rag-and-Bone Man

messynessychic.com · Sep 22

A rag-and-bone man with his horse and cart on the streets of Streatham, southwest London in 1985 When Parisian garbage collectors went on strike in the Spring of 2023, suddenly everyone was talking and thinking about trash. Sanitation and waste management services are so commonplace for the major

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Religious Trauma Syndrome: Former Christian explains how organized religion can lead to mental health problems

alternet.org · Sep 21

At age sixteen I began what would be a four year struggle with bulimia. When the symptoms started, I turned in desperation to adults who knew more than I did about how to stop shameful behavior—my Bible study leader and a visiting youth minister. “If you ask anything in faith, believing,” t...

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Kevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan) · Sep 23
🔁 @chronos:

In addition to anxiety, RTS can include depression, cognitive difficulties, and problems with social functioning. In fundamentalist Christianity, the individual is considered depraved and in need of salvation. A core message is “You are bad and wrong and deserve to die.” (The wages of sin is death.) This gets taught to millions of children through organizations like Child Evangelism Fellowship, and there is a group organized to oppose their incursion into public schools. I’ve had clients who remember being distraught when given a vivid bloody image of Jesus paying the ultimate price for their sins. Decades later they sit telling me that they can’t manage to find any self-worth.

alternet.org/religious-trauma-

Bishop's Ego (@nudiebodhi) · Sep 22
🔁 @chronos:

In addition to anxiety, RTS can include depression, cognitive difficulties, and problems with social functioning. In fundamentalist Christianity, the individual is considered depraved and in need of salvation. A core message is “You are bad and wrong and deserve to die.” (The wages of sin is death.) This gets taught to millions of children through organizations like Child Evangelism Fellowship, and there is a group organized to oppose their incursion into public schools. I’ve had clients who remember being distraught when given a vivid bloody image of Jesus paying the ultimate price for their sins. Decades later they sit telling me that they can’t manage to find any self-worth.

alternet.org/religious-trauma-

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (@Lazarou) · Sep 21
🔁 @br00t4c:

Religious Trauma Syndrome: Former Christian explains how organized religion can lead to mental health problems

#bible #christian

alternet.org/religious-trauma-

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Shared by @jstatepost and 2 others.
Tucker Carlson's Nuts (@jstatepost) · Sep 23
🔁 @TinaDybvik:

"When the book The Mistaken Extinction was published in 1997 the idea that dinosaurs never went #extinct was controversial. This idea is broadly accepted now, though popular language still lags behind."

As paleontologist Julia Clarke says, “birds are living dinosaurs, just as we are mammals.”

indi.ca/will-we-end-up-like-th

#climatechange

skry (@skry) · Sep 22
🔁 @TinaDybvik:

"When the book The Mistaken Extinction was published in 1997 the idea that dinosaurs never went #extinct was controversial. This idea is broadly accepted now, though popular language still lags behind."

As paleontologist Julia Clarke says, “birds are living dinosaurs, just as we are mammals.”

indi.ca/will-we-end-up-like-th

#climatechange

tinadybvik (@TinaDybvik) · Sep 22

"When the book The Mistaken Extinction was published in 1997 the idea that dinosaurs never went #extinct was controversial. This idea is broadly accepted now, though popular language still lags behind."

As paleontologist Julia Clarke says, “birds are living dinosaurs, just as we are mammals.”

indi.ca/will-we-end-up-like-th

#climatechange

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