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Sugardough, Lygon St, Melbourne
Leicas are Flavor Flav clocks for photo nerds. — Twitter / Clayton Cubitt
I quite like faebric
The Internet is causing mass homogenization of human identity, making us all look the same. —
Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World . Our Digital Crisis
Harris’ essay deserves a revisit every couple of months.
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Messages are not only anonymous but ephemeral, because 4chan has no long-term archives: old message threads are automatically deleted when new ones need the room. This mechanism was originally meant to save storage costs, but as Poole notes, “it’s both practical and philosophical.” Among other things, it challenges the idea that digital identity should follow you across time. —
Technology Review: Radical Opacity
I’m over permanent storage of data, you don’t need to fastidiously document every minutia of your life.