“People keep telling me that we’re living on an Information Superhighway. But that’s not true.”
Just a thought, but perhaps don’t open your profound thinkpiece with a cliched metaphor that was already beat to hell three decades ago?
Signs You Are Living in an Information Crap-Pocalypse
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, you can just click “continue reading” which will close the popup, but Substack does a pretty well job applying UX anti patters that some readers don’t notice tiny greyed-out link and just walk away. I think the fact that Substack is both widely popular with authors and provides one of the few modern viable platforms for these authors to get paid, just further proves the point of the article.
Coming from the early web days it still is somehow weird for me to believe in getting paid for such a blog post.
just don’t call the author a content creator.
please.
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#13Nobody these days would believe how enthusiastic I was about the early internet. The best ideas will win bla bla...
The best ideas do win, it's just that people have different ways of measuring "best".
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#14I feel so strongly about this article. Someone I think maybe in 2015 postulated an idea of dead internet theory where stuff like this would be common.
I confess I am just a poor person who works for food at goodwill sorting. I have seen many things which are stirring to heart but one of those really cut down to it. I had a huge cart with seminal and very recent books about super important college text many of them of scientific nature and others of an important nature like bad affairs concerning publishing in college of all things.
I saw the some of the greatest knowledge the MIT library had to offer being simply recycled. I think they wanted it all to simply disappear. It was troubling to someone that it was at MIT. Down here in the worlds retail therapy dump it troubled me. The act of thinking anything of any sort is in itself has become taboo.
I wanted to save even just one book to read but we aren't allowed to even buy trash there. I cried about this after reviewing all these things in this article. I am profoundly disturbed. I can't even categorize what I feel anymore. It is an unbelievable experience and it isn't good. And it's just the first year of AI. No would could ever be fully prepared for this even if you never logged in to the net in your life. Because everyone else did and being drip fed outrage. I'm just beside myself.
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#15I started to read, then I scrolled down and it got dark and insisted I must create an account to read more. The irony of this headline is not lost on me hahaha.
I beg you to read this try just a little harder.
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#17I feel so strongly about this article. Someone I think maybe in 2015 postulated an idea of dead internet theory where stuff like this would be common. I confess I am just a poor person who works for food at goodwill sorting. I have seen many things which are stirring to heart but one of those really cut down to it. I had a huge cart with seminal and very recent books about super important college text many of them of…
I hope you find this thought comforting: those books were merely holographic projections of the master copies which are safe. Copies are still being made. New editions are still being printed. In a sense, those books sent to recycling are overflowing the cup of knowledge. They're evidence not that the bottle has run low, but that the cup is too shallow--or else it's missing the rest of the champagne fountain[0]. I will admit it feels like a loss that these texts aren't run absolutely ragged--especially when one looks at the sorry state of home libraries across the world[1]. This is inspiration for me to re-read some of the quality tomes I've collected and not yet exhausted.
0. https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7013/6678160845_0a3d9e7fb3_b.j...
1. https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street?topic=books&media=al...
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#18Archive: https://archive.is/WcGsS
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#19I started to read, then I scrolled down and it got dark and insisted I must create an account to read more. The irony of this headline is not lost on me hahaha.
There's an archive at https://archive.is/WcGsS which gets around that issue.
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#20“People keep telling me that we’re living on an Information Superhighway. But that’s not true.” Just a thought, but perhaps don’t open your profound thinkpiece with a cliched metaphor that was already beat to hell three decades ago?
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