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📢 TOMORROW!
Learn how tech & capitalism shape human creativity in SEARCHES: SELFHOOD IN THE DIGITAL AGE w/ Vauhini Vara & Luca Messarra.
🎙️📖 A LIVE #booktalk you won’t want to miss.
📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-searches-selfhood-in-the-digital-age/
✏️📆 Filling out your calendar for the week?
🎙️📖 Consider joining us for a LIVE #booktalk exploring how AI transforms what we create & share in SEARCHES: SELFHOOD IN THE DIGITAL AGE w/ Vauhini Vara & Luca Messarra.
📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-searches-selfhood-in-the-digital-age/
Meet the voices behind next week's #booktalk, SEARCHES: SELFHOOD IN THE DIGITAL AGE 📖
VAUHINI VARA reports for The Atlantic, The New Yorker & NYT Magazine, and is the author of The Immortal King Rao & This is Salvaged.
LUCA MESSARRA, Public Humanities Fellow @internetarchive & Stanford PhD, studies literature, digital humanities & text tech.
📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-searches-selfhood-in-the-digital-age/
📚 How does tech shape our desire to understand & connect?
Join Vauhini Vara, award-winning journalist & author, for a LIVE #booktalk on SEARCHES: SELFHOOD IN THE DIGITAL AGE w/ co-host Luca Messarra.
📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-searches-selfhood-in-the-digital-age/
Co-hosted by @internetarchive & @AuthorsAlliance
📚 How does tech shape our desire to understand & connect?
Join Vauhini Vara, award-winning journalist & author, for a LIVE #booktalk on SEARCHES: SELFHOOD IN THE DIGITAL AGE w/ co-host Luca Messarra.
📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-searches-selfhood-in-the-digital-age/
Co-hosted by @internetarchive & @AuthorsAlliance
📚 How do our searches shape who we are, and who profits?
Join Vauhini Vara, award-winning tech journalist and author, for a LIVE podcast recording and #booktalk on SEARCHES, co-hosted by Luca Messarra.
📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026
🕙 10am PT / 1pm ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-searches-selfhood-in-the-digital-age/
Decentralization shifts risk rather than removing it. Running your own services reduces dependency on platforms, but increases dependency on your own operational discipline. Backups, updates, monitoring, and recovery are no longer abstracted away.
What used to be handled by a provider becomes a set of explicit responsibilities. When something breaks, the cause is usually mundane. A missed update, an expired certificate, or a backup that was never tested. The tradeoff is autonomy for responsibility, and it is only obvious once you are operating the system yourself.
#SelfHosting #Decentralization #Systems #DigitalAutonomy #TechCulture
Do you have a topic you want to debate, but no one willing to sit with the complexity instead of rushing to conclusions?
I am here for that kind of conversation.
Let us think out loud without turning it into a performance.
#ThoughtfulConversation #DeepThinking #Nuance #Complexity #CriticalThinking
#Ideas #Debate #IntellectualCuriosity #Philosophy #LongTermThinking
#FediMeta #AskFedi #WritersOfFedi #TechCulture #IndieWeb #OpenWeb
Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
https://www.seangoedecke.com/a-little-bit-cynical/
#HackerNews #SoftwareEngineers #Cynicism #TechCulture #CriticalThinking #ProfessionalDevelopment
The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure
https://technicshistory.com/2025/12/13/the-rise-of-computer-games-part-i-adventure/
#HackerNews #TheRiseOfComputerGames #AdventureGaming #GameHistory #TechCulture #GamingEvolution
Vibe coding is mad depressing
https://law.gmnz.xyz/vibe-coding-is-mad-depressing/
#HackerNews #VibeCoding #Depression #TechCulture #MentalHealth #HackerNews
Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning
https://www.anildash.com/2025/12/02/vibe-coding-empowering-and-imprisoning/
#HackerNews #VibeCoding #Empowering #Imprisoning #TechCulture #SoftwareDevelopment #Innovation
The Unihertz Jelly Star is two years old, runs Android 13, and still does something no other phone can: make me think before I use it.
It’s tiny, awkward, and honest — a detox device that actually works. No one’s made anything like it since. Even Unihertz gave up.
I looked for something that could replace it. Nothing exists.
Read: The Tiny, Brilliant, Infuriating Phone No One Will Replace
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-unihertz-jelly-star-the-tiny-brilliant-infuriating-phone-no-one-will-replace/
#Unihertz #JellyStar #Android #DigitalMinimalism #TechCulture #Phones #Detox #SmallPhones #Minimalism #Review
Gilded Rage – Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/gilded-rage-talking-with-jacob-silverman
#HackerNews #GildedRage #SiliconValley #Libertarianism #Authoritarianism #TechCulture #PaulKrugman
EDIT: I've posted this - that will clarify even more things: https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/10/10/when-bigger-stops-being-better/
I’ve received many reactions to my latest blog post. Some constructive, others critical, but all useful to better understand different perspectives.
However, two recurring dynamics emerged in the comments (mostly outside the Fediverse).
First: I didn’t mention any names. I understand the disappointment, but naming them wouldn’t have helped anyone. Before publishing, I did my homework - that draft had been ready for over a year - and I even asked some of the people involved.
They took action privately to warn friends and colleagues, with good results, but they didn’t want public exposure. Many years have passed, and that company no longer has the same relevance anyway.
Some understood my choice (naming them could have meant serious legal trouble for me), but others started quoting US laws and amendments to "prove" that I could have safely done it. What many don’t realize is that the world isn’t the United States - not everyone plays by the same legal rules. And even if I won such a case, it would still mean wasted time, energy, and peace of mind. Cui prodest?
Second: "Stories like that can only happen in Italy because there are so many small, family-run businesses".
That one annoyed me more - especially because it often came from Italians themselves.
First of all, I’ve worked in several countries, and I never said the story was about an Italian company.
Second, small businesses are not a problem - they’re a strength. My experience taught me that large corporations tend to turn employees into replaceable parts of a giant machine. Customers become faceless numbers, almost subjects rather than clients. At some point, a company’s need for endless growth becomes a trap - not a service that enriches people’s lives, but a "necessary evil".
And that, to me, is the real danger: believing that bigger automatically means better - in tech, and in life.
I wrote about this a few months ago, and I still believe it even more strongly today: https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/09/macbook-pro-vs-car-why-small-businesses-still-win/
#ITNotes #BlogPost #TechCulture #SmallBusiness #Writing #Reflections #PersonalThoughts
The problem isn’t that DHH finally said the quiet part out loud.
The problem is that you’re still pretending it’s shocking, still refusing to connect the dots, and still showing the world that whiteness matters more to you than justice.
Post Link: https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/
#DHH #WhiteSupremacyCulture #Mediocre #TechCulture #WhiteMen #Complicity #Equity #Inclusion #Antiracism #SystemsOfOppression #Whiteness #ProfitWithoutOppression #KimCrayton
