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"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: https://theconversation.com/30-years-of-the-web-down-under-how-australians-made-the-early-internet-their-own-212542

"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: https://theconversation.com/30-years-of-the-web-down-under-how-australians-made-the-early-internet-their-own-212542

"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: https://theconversation.com/30-years-of-the-web-down-under-how-australians-made-the-early-internet-their-own-212542

"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: https://theconversation.com/30-years-of-the-web-down-under-how-australians-made-the-early-internet-their-own-212542

"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: https://theconversation.com/30-years-of-the-web-down-under-how-australians-made-the-early-internet-their-own-212542

30 years of the web down under: how Australians made the early internet their own https://theconversation.com/30-years-of-the-web-down-under-how-australians-made-the-early-internet-their-own-212542

"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: https://theconversation.com/30-years-of-the-web-down-under-how-australians-made-the-early-internet-their-own-212542

"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: https://theconversation.com/30-years-of-the-web-down-under-how-australians-made-the-early-internet-their-own-212542

"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: https://theconversation.com/30-years-of-the-web-down-under-how-australians-made-the-early-internet-their-own-212542

"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: https://theconversation.com/30-years-of-the-web-down-under-how-australians-made-the-early-internet-their-own-212542

"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

https://tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of-the-grift-shift/

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

"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".

https://tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of-the-grift-shift

https://tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of-the-grift-shift/

#AI #MachineLearning #LLM #Creativity #WritingCommunity #Art

🎯🎯🎯 https://tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of-the-grift-shift/

(Ht @macdonst )

"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".

https://tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of-the-grift-shift

"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".

https://tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of-the-grift-shift

"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".

https://tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of-the-grift-shift

The Age of the Grift Shift https://tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of-the-grift-shift/

The Age of the Grift Shift
L: https://tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of-the-grift-shift/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37610238
posted on 2023.09.22 at 06:25:46 (c=0, p=4)

"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".

https://tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of-the-grift-shift

Ars Technica: Depredations and depravities reign in this week’s Wheel of Time https://arstechnica.com/?p=1970407 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #brandonsanderson #AmazonStudios #robertjordan #wheeloftime #Culture #tvrecap #Amazon #review #TV

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/09/depredations-and-depravities-reign-in-this-weeks-wheel-of-time/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Depredations and depravities reign in this week’s Wheel of Time https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/09/depredations-and-depravities-reign-in-this-weeks-wheel-of-time/

Depredations and depravities reign in this week’s Wheel of Time - Enlarge / Still no safeword in Tel'aran'rhiod, Rand. (credit: Amazon St... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1970407 #brandonsanderson #amazonstudios #robertjordan #wheeloftime #culture #tvrecap #amazon #review #tv

A Beginning, Not a Decline: Colette on the Splendor of Autumn and the Autumn of Life https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/22/colette-autumn/

A beginning, not a decline – on this bittersweet last day of (northern-hem) summer, Colette on the splendor of autumn and the autumn of life https://t.co/wBzNfnM1QN

A beginning, not a decline – on this bittersweet last day of (northern-hem) summer, Colette on the splendor of autumn and the autumn of life https://t.co/wBzNfnM1QN

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: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-11/

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

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:

https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-11/

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: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-11/

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

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: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-11/

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

@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. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/ https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/16/13971482/mcdonalds-coffee-lawsuit-stella-liebeck

And a McDonald's franchise allegedly just did it again: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/20/mcdonalds-hot-coffee-lawsuit-2023/

There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/

https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/09/20/ode-to-the-rag-and-bone-man/ - via @feedle

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#goodnews #positivenews #goodreads #longreads #urbanism #society

"These unsung heroes teach us valuable lessons about resourcefulness, recycling, and the innate human spirit to make the most out of what others might consider worthless."

A chronicle of the historical significance of waste collectors across cultures, emphasizing their crucial role in early waste management, recycling, and their enduring impact on society.

https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/09/20/ode-to-the-rag-and-bone-man/ - via @feedle

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#goodnews #positivenews #goodreads #longreads #urbanism #society

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.

https://www.alternet.org/religious-trauma-2665708646/

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.

https://www.alternet.org/religious-trauma-2665708646/

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

#bible #christian

https://www.alternet.org/religious-trauma-2665708646/

"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.”

https://indi.ca/will-we-end-up-like-the-dinosaurs/

#climatechange

"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.”

https://indi.ca/will-we-end-up-like-the-dinosaurs/

#climatechange

"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.”

https://indi.ca/will-we-end-up-like-the-dinosaurs/

#climatechange