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AwattoAnalog<p>"Westenberg" is penned by the eponymous Joan Westenberg. She is also on Mastodon <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Daojoan</span></a></span> </p><p>Take a few minutes out of your day and have a read of "The Internet is Shrinking"</p><p>You'll be glad you did.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-internet-is-shrinking/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">joanwestenberg.com/the-interne</span><span class="invisible">t-is-shrinking/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Westenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Westenberg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JoanWestenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoanWestenberg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blogging</span></a></p>
Chill<p>A subscriber-only article by the wonderfully thought-provoking <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pixelfed.social/joanwestenberg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joanwestenberg</span></a></span> on the Westenberg Letter.</p><p>Content Saturation Has Inverted Cultural Memory</p><p>"We used to remember things because they were exceptional. Moments, dialogue, speeches, films and ideas etched themselves into culture by sheer force of quality. They were better-crafted. Better at sticking. Better at resonating.</p><p>But that was when culture moved slowly.</p><p>To be remembered, something had to stand out against silence.</p><p>Now it has to scream.</p><p>Content saturation has rewired the mechanics of cultural memory. When we’re faced with more stimuli than any brain has evolved to manage, our collective attention doesn’t coalesce around excellence.</p><p>It can’t.</p><p>There's too much.</p><p>So instead, it flocks to the repeatable, the clippable, the memetic. Cultural staying power has detached from quality and grafted itself onto transmissibility. If it can be misheard, clipped out of context, and reposted with rage emojis, it will be."</p><p>Westenberg never fails to impress with insight and challenging observations.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Westenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Westenberg</span></a><br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/JoanWestenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoanWestenberg</span></a> <br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/TheIndex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheIndex</span></a></p>
Flipboard<p>Are we humans allocating our collective “genius” effectively, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Daojoan</span></a></span> wonders? “Because when I look around at our vaunted technological progress, I can't help but notice that we're drowning in slightly better stuff while the rudiments of human flourishing remain stagnant or deteriorate and decay. There's progress here, but it's not science fiction. It's barely even science,” she writes in this essay that also covers how and why we’re trapped in a cycle of over-consumption.</p><p><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-future-is-more-stuff/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">joanwestenberg.com/the-future-</span><span class="invisible">is-more-stuff/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Innovation</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/JoanWestenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoanWestenberg</span></a> Consumption <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newstodon</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NewstodonFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewstodonFriday</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FollowFriday</span></a></p>
Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦 <p>"America's willful blindness to external reality is the defining symptom of a power in decline. Experience teaches us that empires don't recognize their fall until it's irreversible; by the time America finally peers beyond its borders, it will find a world that has moved on without it." --Joan Westenberg</p><p><a href="https://www.theindex.media/the-new-world-order-is-here-and-america-isnt-part-of-it/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theindex.media/the-new-world-o</span><span class="invisible">rder-is-here-and-america-isnt-part-of-it/</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/InternationalOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalOrder</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WorldAffairs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldAffairs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JoanWestenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoanWestenberg</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DeclineAndFall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeclineAndFall</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TuckersBalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TuckersBalls</span></a></p>
AwattoAnalog<p>I've recently discovered "Westenberg" which is penned by the eponymous Joan Westenberg. She is also on Mastodon <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Daojoan</span></a></span> </p><p>Take a few minutes out of your day and have a read of "The Hidden Cost of Free Content"</p><p>You'll be glad you did.</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-hidden-cost-of-free-content/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">joanwestenberg.com/the-hidden-</span><span class="invisible">cost-of-free-content/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Westenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Westenberg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JoanWestenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoanWestenberg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blogging</span></a></p>
AwattoAnalog<p>I've recently discovered "Westenberg" which is penned by the eponymous Joan Westenberg. She is also on Mastodon <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Daojoan</span></a></span> </p><p>"Westenberg is a blog where technology, philosophy, creativity, and productivity all come together, tangled and messy. Mostly because that’s how they are in real life."</p><p>Her common sense cuts through the bullshit in our lives.</p><p>If you're not reading Westenberg, you're missing out.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">joanwestenberg.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Westenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Westenberg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JoanWestenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoanWestenberg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Westenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Westenberg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blogging</span></a></p>
Flipboard<p>“The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.” Here’s yet another brilliant feature by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Daojoan</span></a></span>. “The fediverse won’t succeed just because it’s better. It will succeed if and only if people choose it. If they reject the idea that being trapped in someone else’s ecosystem is just the cost of existing online. If they stop believing that “free” means surrendering ownership of your own connections, your own history, your own data. If they see that the internet wasn’t built to be a factory for engagement metrics and AI-generated content farms. It was built to connect us, not silo us to pad a wealth-extremist’s bank account,” she writes. </p><p><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverse-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">joanwestenberg.com/the-fediver</span><span class="invisible">se-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied</span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/DigitalSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalSovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/JoanWestenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoanWestenberg</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/OpenSocialWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSocialWeb</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/WalledGardens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WalledGardens</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newstodon</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NewstodonFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewstodonFriday</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FollowFriday</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p>Here is a clip from <a href="https://aus.social/tags/JoanWestenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoanWestenberg</span></a> in The Index:</p><p>“The Internet was supposed to be the great equalizer. It was meant to be a force that shattered hierarchies and gave power to ordinary people. Instead, it enabled the wealth extraction and avarice of a cartel of overfed, over-pampered despots who enriched themselves in the name of innovation, bled the world to the point of near-total collapse, intellectualized their power fetish and now view public institutions as the final obstacles to be dismantled in their egotistical, delusional pursuit of More.”</p><p>I love her work. Not only is her writing on point, it’s a pleasure to read her flowing critique of the American Oligarchy. While it is currently <a href="https://aus.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> oriented the lessons are global in nature. Worth every minute spent reading her. </p><p><a href="https://www.theindex.media/the-fascist-tech-bro-takeover-is-here-2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theindex.media/the-fascist-tec</span><span class="invisible">h-bro-takeover-is-here-2/</span></a></p>
Kevin Gamin<p><strong>Why Personal Websites Matter More Than Ever – Joan Westenberg</strong></p><p>“HTML was an almost democratizing force, giving a generation of people the tools they needed to stake their claim and plant their flag in the ground. The personal website was a statement of intent, a manifesto, a portfolio, a piece of digital architecture you could be damn proud of.</p><p>And then something changed.”</p><p><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-personal-websites-matter-more-than-ever/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.joanwestenberg.com/why-personal-websites-matter-more-than-ever/</a></p>
Maude Nificent<p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Trusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trusk</span></a> (trump/musk stuff) <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Mump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mump</span></a> (musk/trump stuff) <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NeoLiberalismCarriedToItsLogicalConclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoLiberalismCarriedToItsLogicalConclusion</span></a><br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/ComingSoonToAnAustraluaNearYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComingSoonToAnAustraluaNearYou</span></a></p><p>in 2007 Naomi Klein wrote about <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DisasterCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisasterCapitalism</span></a> in her book <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ShockDoctrine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShockDoctrine</span></a> - a strategy of destroying everything then picking through the rubble for opportunities</p><p>in this post, <a href="https://aus.social/tags/JoanWestenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoanWestenberg</span></a> writes about the strategies being used to dismantle veteran benefits… and what will emerge from the rubble</p><p><a href="https://www.theindex.media/elon-musk-and-donald-trump-have-declared-war-on-veterans/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theindex.media/elon-musk-and-d</span><span class="invisible">onald-trump-have-declared-war-on-veterans/</span></a></p>
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