“Oops, we’re back where we started. Aggregation leads to disaggregation. Disaggregation leads to aggregation. Inhale. Exhale.”

"I was a climbing careerist in the American Intelligence Community, a former CIA officer and NSA contractor, until I discovered that my work — and the work of my generation — had, in secret, been turned toward the construction of history’s _...Read More_

Great article. This feels worth highlighting: though the substack model aims to support journalism rather than be a social media platform, it generates a lot more social media-style commentary than original journalism

“we demand protocols, not platforms. But who’s going to get us there? Meet the stacktivists.” In this essay by GEERT LOVINK a new form of Internet activism is proposed: stacktivism. Building on hacktivist practices, this form of code and _...Read More_