Happy Birthday, Pinboard!
Maciej Ceglowski tells us that Pinboard turns seven today. I started using Pinboard on July 14, 2009, so I’ve...
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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...
the unbought grace of the human self
Returning to Edward Mendelson’s essay “In the Depths of the Digital Age”: an essay about technology, some might...
cultural appropriation, defilement, rituals of purification
I think it’s now generally understood that the disaffected cultural left and the disaffected cultural right have...
Who, whom?
A good many people — some of them very smart — are praising this post by Steven Sinofsky on “platform shifts”...
Prince, tech, and the Californian Ideology
I recently gave some talks to a gathering of clergy that focused on the effects of digital technology on the...
social media triage
We all have to find ways to manage our social-media lives. I have a few rules about engaging with other people,...
Twitter’s changes
So this interview with Twitter’s Kevin Weil suggests that (a) there will be significant changes coming to the...
brief book reviews: The Internet of Garbage
Sarah Jeong’s short book The Internet of Garbage is very well done, and rather sobering, and I recommend it to you....
notification
Matt Gemmell: The problem with notifications is that they occupy the junction of several unhealthy human...