*the doomsday logic was always internally consistent. The world just did not cooperate.*
What happened was after a pessimistic assessment of a situation was made somebody decided to take action to produce a potentially positive outcome. The invisible hand of a market didn’t just make things magically better. Action of some kind is absolutely necessary. And that action is often spurred on by creating actionable urgency.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/optimism-is-not-a-personality-flaw/
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/communities-are-not-fungible/
“so many attempts to "build community" from scratch end up producing something that looks like community but functions like a mailing list”
There's a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products, and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable, and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement; that the value of a group of people who share space and history can be captured
In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufactured with default passwords that nobody ever changed, all simultaneously requesting his homepage. No single request was malicious. Each packet was
Warum es mehr Blogs braucht
Joan Westenberg (@Daojoan) macht sich kluge Gedanken darüber, was verloren ging, als die Leute ihre Blogs für Social Media aufgegeben haben.https://kaffeeringe.de/2026/01/03/warum-es-mehr-blogs-braucht/
Joan Westenberg (@[email protected]) macht sich kluge Gedanken darüber, was verloren ging, als die Leute ihre Blogs für Social Media aufgegeben haben.
"The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy in a closed system tends to increase over time. Your codebase is not exempt from this law. Neither is your body, your marriage, your democracy, or your kitchen. ... The universe trends toward disorder with the patient inevitability of continental drift, and the only thing standing between any functional system and chaos is the inglorious, repetitive, thankless work of maintenance." #JoanWestenberg
#heroes #care #love
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-rime-of-the-ancient-maintainer
"Westenberg" is penned by the eponymous Joan Westenberg. She is also on Mastodon @Daojoan
Take a few minutes out of your day and have a read of "I Miss the Internet"
You'll be glad you did.
Source: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-miss-the-internet
@Daojoan
I respect you more each article.
"Westenberg" is penned by the eponymous Joan Westenberg. She is also on Mastodon @Daojoan
Take a few minutes out of your day and have a read of "The Internet is Shrinking"
You'll be glad you did.
Source: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-internet-is-shrinking/
The internet used to be limitless, open to anyone with an idea. Now, it’s a polished prison run by tech giants. Is this the future we signed up for? Here’s how Big Tech quietly turned freedom into captivity. Remember when the internet felt infinite? When every click could
#joanwestenberg writes of the lack of touch and what it's doing to us as a people.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/a-world-without-touch-is-a-world-without-trust/
> Touch is our first language. Older than words, deeper than thought. Before we can speak or remember, we understand the grammar of skin against skin; the newborn’s cry quiets at their parents' touch. This is where we all begin: not with boxes or categories, with contact.
Touch is our first language. Older than words, deeper than thought. Before we can speak or remember, we understand the grammar of skin against skin; the newborn’s cry quiets at their parents' touch. This is where we all begin: not with boxes or categories, with contact. Adult life was
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