“We cannot make social media good, because it is fundamentally bad, deep in its very structure. All we can do is hope that it withers away, and play our small part in helping abandon it” https://t.co/AqGJMiG3nr
"The narrative vacuum in an information society makes people feel discontent... We are very well informed, yet somehow we cannot orient ourselves." https://t.co/KbIOSSDhye via @NoemaMag
“What makes a brand a bland is…slavishly obeying an identikit formula of business model, look and feel, and tone of voice.”
@benschott https://t.co/cAjeSU7sEt via @bopinion
There are 7,000+ known living languages. This diagram shows the # of native speakers for each language. More people speak a dialect of Chinese than speak English natively. This makes me wonder how much is lost in translation.
Source: SCMP data on 6.3 billion people (of 7.9 bil).
"In Ecology as Politics, Gorz argues that sustainability will never be attained in a capitalist economy because of a dynamic he calls the “poverty of affluence." @DominicBoyer@NoemaMag https://t.co/9GLYgczdNX
“Though the pandemic-era transformation of white-collar work seems empowering at first, we should not be deceived: Many of these changes mostly benefit employers.”
What We Lose When Work Gets Too Casual https://t.co/wyvnbJVW0Y
"Umbilicular commerce"- a parallel between The Matrix and the increasingly automated world where the internet amounts to little more than a big, mind-reading “vending machine” by @swajcmanearle in @nytopinion
https://t.co/C8EWzHeLpL
From bacteria to space travel, we’re only just grasping the idea that humans are not at the center of the universe.
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