Good Links No.11
Leaving Facebook, The Letter, & Big Tech's Pandemic Play
Matt Civico
Our Common Pursuits
Tending what we share and loving what is ordinary
Good Links No.10
If anyone is conspiring, it's the cats.
Opportunity Cost
Reorient. Recalibrate. Return. Rebuild.
Towards Technopoly: Reading Neil Postman
Reading Neil Postman in 20xx
Second-best: Thinking about tech in a pandemic
Welcome to life on lockdown. We’re inside a lot, and everyone is on the internet
more than usual (which was already always for many).
Self-isolation measures are in place across the world and economies are paused
as countries brace for the worst outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic. The world
Good Links No.9
Quarantine Care Package
The One About The Given Life
Real life is not planned
GoodLinks No.8
Slow news & the Pandemic
Lent and the desires of digital media
Neil Postman encouraged those living under what he called Technopoly to have the
outlook of “a loving resistance fighter” towards technology. In Chapter 11 of
Technopoly, he defines what that resistance looks like:
> “A resistance fighter understands that technology must never be accepted as part
of the natural order