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I used to think of “knowledge projects” as involving a big mission, a big community, and a complex piece of software: the stuff of Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, or Genius….But the web is just as good for collaborations in the small. Not so long ago, I took a poem I wanted to understand better and sent…
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The coming years will not be quiet. They will not be polite. You do not get to price a generation out of housing, bury them in debt, flood their minds with chaos, strip them of meaning, and then expect compliance wrapped in motivational quotes. — Read on x.com/basedtorba/status/2012698421228875778
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whenever i hear a young person confidently assert that humanity is cooked, my first instinct is to ask for their screen time report. because, yes, if you spend more time scrolling than you do participating in real life, it’s actually quite reasonable to conclude that we’re hanging on by a thread — Read on stephstiner.substack.com/p/a-gen-z-guide-to-fixing-your-doom