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Of the (many) takes about e/acc, journalists seem preoccupied with analyzing its moral value. But no one has asked: if e/acc is "just" techno-optimism, why is it suddenly popular now? I explored this in a piece for The New Atlantis: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/tech-strikes-back
Of the (many) takes about e/acc, journalists seem preoccupied with analyzing its moral value. But no one has asked: if e/acc is "just" techno-optimism, why is it suddenly popular now? I explored this in a piece for The New Atlantis: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/tech-strikes-back
open source conference culture does this, too!
haha, most of my ideas start in my notes app - random one-off scribbles and braindumps. Blog and newsletter posts start as Markdown files on my desktop, then get moved into Google Docs if they get too unwieldy. I use Obsidian to manage my work, but somehow I always need to write posts this way first
I think this was more of an exploratory work. I wanted to revisit what we think we know about memes, and point out that hey: not all important or compelling ideas go viral, so if that’s the case, how does that change our understanding of how information spreads? I often see “mimetic behavior” being referenced as shorthand for how people are inevitably assumed to act, and I think it’s both a reductive and sort of depressing view of the world, so I wanted to expand how we think about that by introducing a counterpoint.