the memes of the Brexit post-mortems
I don’t have any strong opinions about the Brexit decision. In general I’m in favor of functioning with the...
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the story of everything
A does something to B. (Maybe A shoots B; maybe A refuses to bake a cake for B. It doesn’t signify.) Social media...
Morozov on Carr
Evgeny Morozov is probably not really “Evgeny Morozov,” but he plays him on the internet and has been doing so for...
uncomfortable
When I returned from the physical shock of Nagasaki, which I have described in the first page of this book, I tried to...
what Facebook wants you to know (or not)
Net neutrality not an issue for you? You find Facebook’s algorithmic selectivity non-problematic? Read Zeynep...
first-person shooter
A few nights ago at the movies I saw a trailer for the last installment of The Hobbit, and caught a brief glimpse of a...
triumphalism and historical imagination
A great many of our social ills are caused, or at least intensified, by a lack of historical imagination. Imagination...
what politicians don’t know about science (and other things)
Buried in the midst of reports on all the various doings at Christ’s College, Cambridge in that fine institution’s...
in Utopia they loot the bookstores
This kind of thing just makes me sad. Sad, sad, sad. It seems that whenever any event causes people to think about how...
Particularize
As I mentioned the other day, the Shirky/Doctorow thesis is that the internet in general and social media in particular...