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This is an absolutely fantastic essay on how fragile the cultural works created on the web have become, through the lens of the late Clive James’s website: Internet Amnesia.
How much more vulnerable is all that creativity locked away in the big social platforms?
This post by Euan Semple, which is an expression of moral relativism (or adjacet to it, at least), feels both elementally true to me - but also a dangerous way to think about one of the things he mentions: Facebook.
It feels, at some level, that it lets the people in charge off the hook.
Thoughts?
Podcasting the great outdoors - one of the ways I try to disconnect from work over the weekend.
Whatever happened to Yahoo’s digital time capsule?
Marie Boran asks if everyone has forgotten about Yahoo’s digital time capsule?:
This was to be opened on the company’s 25th anniversary on March 2nd, 2020, but the webpage looks abandoned; according to the webpage countdown there is still a decade left until the capsule opens.
So much of 90s/00s digital culture is gone. Future historian will lament that we were so careless with the archive of the formative days of our digital culture.
The psychology behind Boris's war on the media
Nick Cohen on why Boris Johnson is so suspicious of the media:
I suspect there is a strong element of projection at play. It is because Johnson was a partisan columnist that he is an enemy of press freedom. He assumes all journalists are like him, and that they will twist, distort and censor accordingly.
Good insight that makes a lot of sense.
Rob Beschizza: Study: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
Not a surprise. I nearly joked that it could prove to be the mental health equivalent of smoking - and then realised that was no joke.
Well, this reads like the opening of a horror novel: Inaccessible first-floor Wisbech property for sale for £100
Yes, please: A return to blogs (finally? sort of?)
If you haven’t been paying attention to just how massive the bushfire crisis is in Australia, this set of information and links will open your eyes.
And possibly your bowels.