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The internet is already over (2022)

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Re: The internet is already over (2022)

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Post by 650 »

interroboink wrote: post #19

This article feels like a window into the mind of someone who drank too deeply of being perpetually online, and now feels the pendulum swing the other way. Like the verbal equivalent of that one time I drank far too much Gin and my stomach finally said "no" all over the bathroom floor (missed the toilet — oops). I'm glad to never have gone down that particular path. Stuck with my flip phone for ages, etc. But for peo…

>for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. - Nietzsche

Because these apps are designed to be targeted and specific with some of the brightest minds in the world working on them, it's easy to overdose and become addicted.

t. recovering addict

Re: The internet is already over (2022)

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Post by interroboink »

manuelmoreale wrote: post #16
_7acn wrote: post #4

I've been using the Internet since the days of Netscape Navigator and 14.4 kbit/s dial-up modems. Maybe it's just that I'm getting older, but I really miss the old Internet. Ironically, it felt less "anonymous" back then, and it was easier to be part of a community — users knew each other. Now, everyone is here, and the quality of content has significantly declined.

I’d like to offer an alternative: people who still write on personal blogs and like to interact with each other. https://ooh.directory is constantly growing if you want to look for things to read. https://kagi.com/smallweb Is a fun alternative way to discover new content. I started a series almost a year ago to help people discover interesting humans and their blogs: https://peopleandblogs.com/ Bearblog has a discove…

I'll add some more "small web" links, for those interested. Thanks for yours!

* https://search.marginalia.nu/

* https://wiby.me/surprise/

* https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/

* https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3hn0a7/what_smal...

EDIT: and because this one just brings me joy, that it exists, with such excruciating detail (:

* https://www.trilobites.info/

Re: The internet is already over (2022)

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Post by rda2 »

dillydogg wrote: post #11
im3w1l wrote: post #3

Long but enjoyable read. I was surprised it didn't mention AI.

I guess it was published in 2022. It hadn't become as ubiquitous yet. I would look forward to a follow up that includes some commentary on AI accelerating these issues

Sam Kriss has at least two posts that came later about AI:

https://samkriss.substack.com/p/a-users-guide-to-the-zairja-...

https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-cacophony

The second one is a bit closer to touching on the same themes, but both are a little more allegorical than TFA.

Re: The internet is already over (2022)

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Post by dang_it_man »

interroboink wrote: post #19

This article feels like a window into the mind of someone who drank too deeply of being perpetually online, and now feels the pendulum swing the other way. Like the verbal equivalent of that one time I drank far too much Gin and my stomach finally said "no" all over the bathroom floor (missed the toilet — oops). I'm glad to never have gone down that particular path. Stuck with my flip phone for ages, etc. But for peo…

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Re: The internet is already over (2022)

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Post by interroboink »

650 wrote: post #21
interroboink wrote: post #19

This article feels like a window into the mind of someone who drank too deeply of being perpetually online, and now feels the pendulum swing the other way. Like the verbal equivalent of that one time I drank far too much Gin and my stomach finally said "no" all over the bathroom floor (missed the toilet — oops). I'm glad to never have gone down that particular path. Stuck with my flip phone for ages, etc. But for peo…

>for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. - Nietzsche Because these apps are designed to be targeted and specific with some of the brightest minds in the world working on them, it's easy to overdose and become addicted. t. recovering addict

Agreed with you there (:

I'm not sure where the healing process begins, on the larger scale. Parents with their children, I suppose? I grew up without TV; probably that twisted my mind a bit, so I recoil from that stuff somewhat automatically. It's something I wish upon others.

Re: The internet is already over (2022)

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Post by sveng »

manuelmoreale wrote: post #16
_7acn wrote: post #4

I've been using the Internet since the days of Netscape Navigator and 14.4 kbit/s dial-up modems. Maybe it's just that I'm getting older, but I really miss the old Internet. Ironically, it felt less "anonymous" back then, and it was easier to be part of a community — users knew each other. Now, everyone is here, and the quality of content has significantly declined.

I’d like to offer an alternative: people who still write on personal blogs and like to interact with each other. https://ooh.directory is constantly growing if you want to look for things to read. https://kagi.com/smallweb Is a fun alternative way to discover new content. I started a series almost a year ago to help people discover interesting humans and their blogs: https://peopleandblogs.com/ Bearblog has a discove…

One more:

https://www.leanternet.com/

(Scroll all the way down; HN is mentioned first).

Re: The internet is already over (2022)

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Post by shoubidouwah »

mrkramer wrote: post #6
shoubidouwah wrote: post #2

If Sam Kriss spent two years to write any of his blog posts into a book, he'd be Nietzsche. Still makes for a sparkling bit of thought, easily reread.

What makes you think if Nietzsche lived today, he wouldn't be a blogger?

temporal commutativity of thought in the media vector space?

Re: The internet is already over (2022)

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Post by shoubidouwah »

samastur wrote: post #20
shoubidouwah wrote: post #2

If Sam Kriss spent two years to write any of his blog posts into a book, he'd be Nietzsche. Still makes for a sparkling bit of thought, easily reread.

No, he wouldn't. The whole thing is all blitz and little substance of someone who seems to be over-read and under-thought. It's best described in his own words: a handful of sugar instead of a meal.

It also was how N. saw his thoughts at times. An evidence, disgraced for being explained. And stylistic flamboyance around a theme is hardly foreign to philosophers, this one in particular (any chapter of Zarathustra can be read as a blog post in the same way).

I still advocate that style - and being drunk with style - can lead the writer to singularly original and contemporaneous ideas. Language is a dynamic object, filled with the spirit of the age, and very high sensitivity to it within a philosophical context can act as a catalyst.

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