july 14 cdc

From Friday's post: Bookmarking was important. It still is. Bookmarking is about agency, choice, discovery, and archiving. This sort of thing is antithetical to algorithmic culture, which tells you what you like and curates a reality for you to step into. From yesterday's post: When I talk about bAcK wHeN tHe InTeRnEt WaS gOoD I'm talking about the pre-surveillance, non-algorithmic internet, which, by extension, necessarily means the internet before social media was the dominant expression of the internet experience.Related: I've been reading Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death because it seems especially relevant to my/our plight. More on that tomorrow, or some other day this week. So, like, this is clearly something that's on my mind. It's been on my mind for at least the last 10-12 years but in some way I'm sure it's been marinating for even longer: they used the internet to break the world, and then they used the world to break the internet. What does this mean? It means…