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Joan Westenberg - May 24, 2025 a few excerpts: >... I think we're living through the same kind of transition right now, except instead of the telegraph disrupting newspapers, Al agents are disrupting the web. ... But Al agents are a new "user" type: [...]

I view Bluesky, Threads, X(FKAT), nostr, all the Mastodon instances, and spin-offs from them, as well as Insta, TikTok, and even Facebook, and others, as comprising a decentralized system of social networks (the "socials"). These systems are like [...]

() 1. Transmission networks: Connection is something that flows (water, electricity, money, news ...). Connection can be broken like a physical pipe. 2. Interaction networks: Connection [...]

Shoshana Zuboff (@shoshanazuboff): Friends, Elon sees Twitter as the “common digital town square,”but this “town" is not Our Town. It is Muskville. A public square isn't owned by billionaire megalomaniacs. It belongs to the people, ruled by democracy. [...]

APA: Calvino, Italo (1988). Six Memos for the Next Millennium. Mariner Books. Link: (WLA: these excerpts may skip all around ... ) pages 111 - 112: > But there is another definition in which I recognize [...]