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How I Got My Attention Back — by Craig Mod

craigmod.com/essays/how_i_got_my_attention_back/

There are a thousand beautiful ways to start the day that don’t begin with looking at your phone. And yet so few of us choose to do so. Technology is commanding our attention in infinite, insurmountable loops. A country trip off-grid helped me escape.

• attention, tag
• internet, tag
• technology, tag
• psychology, tag
• burnout, tag
• ·4 years ago

The Mystery of John Titor: Hoax or Time Traveler? - Pacific Standard

psmag.com/environment/the-mystery-of-john-titor-hoax-or-time-traveler-57001

A person named "John Titor" started posting on the Internet one day, claiming to be from the future and predicting the end of the world. Then he suddenly disappeared, never to be heard from again.

• environment, tag
• future, tag
• internet, tag
• science, tag
• time, tag
• travel, tag
• ·4 years ago

QAnon Is More Important Than You Think - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/

• conspiracy, tag
• politics, tag
• conspiracies, tag
• internet, tag
• ·4 years ago

Zero Trust Information – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

stratechery.com/2020/zero-trust-information/

• internet, tag
• security, tag
• communication, tag
• coronavirus, tag
• ·4 years ago

Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet | WIRED

wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/

People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.

• wikipedia, tag
• internet, tag
• longreads, tag
• culture, tag
• ·4 years ago

OnlyFans: a day in the life of a top(less) creator | 1843

1843magazine.com/people/onlyfans-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-topless-creator

• culture, tag
• sex_work, tag
• ideas, tag
• business, tag
• internet, tag
• monetisation, tag
• ·4 years ago

href.cool: Links of the 2010s

href.cool/2010s/

• culture, tag
• internet, tag
• art, tag
• humour, tag
• history, tag
• netart, tag
• links, tag
• ·5 years ago

Are.na / Good Sign-Offs

are.na/meg-miller/good-sign-offs

"100+ ways to tell someone goodbye"

• writing, tag
• email, tag
• internet, tag
• humour, tag
• correspondance, tag
• ·5 years ago

Digital media use and mental health - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_media_use_and_mental_health

• internet, tag
• culture, tag
• mental_health, tag
• addiction, tag
• ·5 years ago

The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet – OneZero

onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1

In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem, author Liu Cixin presents the dark forest theory of the universe. When we look out into space, the theory goes, we’re struck by its silence. It seems…

• culture, tag
• privacy, tag
• internet, tag
• social_media, tag
• ·5 years ago

Security Checklist

securitycheckli.st/

A checklist for staying safe on the internet

• security, tag
• privacy, tag
• checklist, tag
• best_practices, tag
• internet, tag
• sharing, tag
• ·5 years ago

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist – Tristan Harris

tristanharris.com/2016/05/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8afrom-a-magician-and-googles-design-ethicist/

• technology, tag
• psychology, tag
• design, tag
• magic, tag
• internet, tag
• ethics, tag
• attention, tag
• ·5 years ago

Superfan! — Sacha Judd

sachajudd.com/superfan

• internet, tag
• culture, tag
• creativity, tag
• talk, tag
• fandom, tag
• career, tag
• community, tag
• ·6 years ago

Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web?

twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html

• internet, tag
• history, tag
• article, tag
• semantic, tag
• decentralisation, tag
• metadata, tag
• microformats, tag
• ·6 years ago

Are you really Facebook’s product? The history of a dangerous idea.

slate.com/technology/2018/04/are-you-really-facebooks-product-the-history-of-a-dangerous-idea.html

• advertising, tag
• social_media, tag
• privacy, tag
• media, tag
• internet, tag
• facebook, tag
• ·6 years ago

Sure, The Internet Is Broken. So Let’s Go Fix It, Shall We?

shift.newco.co/sure-the-internet-is-broken-so-lets-go-fix-it-shall-we-5c27e294c25c

Over the past year Cloudflare became best known not for the impressive services it has built in the Internet networking space, but for an action taken by its CEO Matthew Prince during the swirl…

• dns, tag
• facebook, tag
• cloudflare, tag
• networking, tag
• internet, tag
• interview, tag
• ·6 years ago

Gary Bernhardt on Twitter: "I imagined a future where I could say..."

twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/946483997948776450

• thread, tag
• information_design, tag
• query, tag
• structure, tag
• keyboard, tag
• internet, tag
• ·6 years ago

Ignored By Big Telecom, Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet - Motherboard

motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kz3xyz/detroit-mesh-network

40 percent of Detroit residents don't have any access to internet at all.

• infrastructure, tag
• internet, tag
• detroit, tag
• fiber, tag
• humans, tag
• fiber_optic, tag
• social_justice, tag
• diy, tag
• ·7 years ago

redecentralize/alternative-internet: A collection of interesting new networks and tech aiming at decentralisation (in some form).

github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet

• distributed, tag
• network, tag
• alternative, tag
• decentralisation, tag
• internet, tag
• github, tag
• ·7 years ago

The Internet of Ownership – Tools for the platform cooperative ecosystem

ioo.coop/

• cooperativism, tag
• coop, tag
• internet, tag
• decentralisation, tag
• economy, tag
• resource, tag
• ·7 years ago