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Terry Godier’s development work and his essays warrant attention (especially “Phantom Obligation” and “The Last Quiet Thing”). His most recent foray, “The Boring Internet”, makes the argument that the transformation of the web into a series of centralized platforms is fundamentally skin-deep and thus not only reversible in the future but can be ignored now. He writes:

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But the actual internet — the protocols, the federated services, the plain-text commands, the open feeds, the small servers, the personal sites, the things people built when user and developer were sometimes the same word — is still...

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Words and Numbers: social.charlescisco.org

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Welborn's Capital and Kingsnorth's Machine: social.charlescisco.org

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Too much movement: social.charlescisco.org

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Two quotations on time for the twelfth day of Christmas: social.charlescisco.org

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Two quotations on time for the twelfth day of Christmas: social.charlescisco.org

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In this post, Alan Jacobs concludes with an insightful and concise hierarchy of technological tools:

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Paper in preference to digital; flat files in preference to databases; cross-platform tools in preference to one-platform tools. This is the only way.

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I can’t speak for him, but behind this hierarchy I perceive a pair of countercultural but correct and urgent moral and intellectual conclusions: we must own our data, and it must be portable.

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After reading Simone Weil’s The Need for Roots (which is itself an inevitable result of reading enough Alan Jacobs, Matthew Crawford, and Paul Kingsnorth, who all cite her on various key points), I think this brief quote may summarize the weightiness and urgency of this book:

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The acquisition of knowledge brings us closer to the truth when it is knowledge of what we love, and not in any other instance (Simone Weil, The Need for Roots, trans. Ros Schwartz [Penguin, 2023], 195).

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The pressing question: how can we learn to love the our subjects, and, even more, teach our students to love them?

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