magpie 58/ rewild the internet
While it’s an unlikely outcome without a level of government intervention that should make everyone nervous, the idea of ‘rewilding the internet’ is a fun one.
Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within.
Or, as others have called it: digital sharecropping
On Rewilding: real world rewilding as another rabbit hole a few years ago, before the newsletter. This book covers the benefits from rewilding your gut through the guerilla activists reintroducing beavers to European wetlands (with amazing results).
While it’s hard not to love a good spy film or novel - and I’ve loved the Slow Horses series like most of the known universe - this essay dissects how Mick Herron is articulating & predicting the british political malaise
“New Wave film director François Truffaut once said there’s no such thing as an antiwar film; the same goes for spy novels […] Herron, though, has been compared to Le Carré because, even as he delivers thrills (and, in a different way from that master, some good laughs), he too wants to shine a light on the foolishness and wickedness of Western pols.
Beating Slow Horses | Missing Character | Issues | The Hedgehog Review
Mick Herron’s Jackson Lamb is a casualty of both the Cold War and its aftermath.
Dunning of Dunning-Kruger has new work out:
David Dunning: Overcoming Overconfidence | OpenMind Magazine
Dunning, co-discoverer of the Dunning-Kruger effect, investigates the misinformation gap built into our brains: We don't know what we don't know.
Some people are still high on async voice-based social media, but airchat is trying to bridge the gap. I still hate it but Om Malik is optimistic
