Literature/policy/politics. Never caffeinated enough. Jill of many trades. Often document wild adventures in reading + binge-watching. (Posts👇🏽 purposefully useless & stream of consciousness.)
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I'm going to request having all books featruing humans banned, on the grounds that humans are boring 😜😂
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“Half the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.”
I was inspired recently by a conversation about Bluesky becoming a political echo chamber.
But, after some thought, I'm not sure the politics are the problem. I think it's the behaviour of the 'alternative' platforms.
If we can rethink how we communicate online, encourage people to be more respectful, to be politer, maybe we can fix the echo chamber issue. Maybe we could even fitx some of the big world issues?
https://forbetter.ghost.io/is-bad-behaviour-spoiling-the-move-from-big-tech/
Are political differences really to blame as people are pushed from alternative platforms? One of the biggest conversations to come out of Bluesky's rise was centered around the platform being a 'left' alternative. This led to accusations of the platform being an echo chamber and, in some respects, I would
Lovely piece!
“Our culture has become so obsessed with utility & efficiency that we find ourselves forced to justify our hobbies, & indeed, reading old fantasy novels would seem to be rather inefficient and anti-useful. To spend time in a completely imaginary world very unlike our own, reading about elves and hobbits, would seem to bear very little on 'real' life. But 'seem' is the operative word, because this fantasy novel was written by a real person…”
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