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Joan Westenberg - May 24, 2025 a few excerpts: >... I think we're living through the same kind of transition right now, except instead of the telegraph disrupting newspapers, Al agents are disrupting the web. ... But Al agents are a new "user" type: [...]

I view Bluesky, Threads, X(FKAT), nostr, all the Mastodon instances, and spin-offs from them, as well as Insta, TikTok, and even Facebook, and others, as comprising a decentralized system of social networks (the "socials"). These systems are like [...]

APA: Calvino, Italo (1988). Six Memos for the Next Millennium. Mariner Books. Link: (WLA: these excerpts may skip all around ... ) pages 111 - 112: > But there is another definition in which I recognize [...]

Shoshana Zuboff (@shoshanazuboff): Friends, Elon sees Twitter as the “common digital town square,”but this “town" is not Our Town. It is Muskville. A public square isn't owned by billionaire megalomaniacs. It belongs to the people, ruled by democracy. [...]

first noted on 2021-08-27 Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates): if you read this thoughtful and informative article through to the end, you will see why "public policies" are a necessity, whether health-oriented [like vaccinations, mask-wearing] or [...]