protecting minority groups from psychic harms

trying to present a more compelling and attractive vision than the fascists.

you can clip a cornbread recipe from the web on your Mac, read it on your iPhone when you’re at the grocery store buying the ingredients and look it up from your friend’s Windows PC when you’re at his house preparing to bake the cornbread.

AI/machine learning to flag potentially abusive material

And precisely the attraction of the Net like that of thePress in Kierkegaard's time, would inhibit that final plunge.

Thus Kierkegaard is right, thePress and the Internet are the ultimate enemy of the unconditionalcommitment which is the basis of Christianity.

IV. The Public Sphere vs. the Religious Sphere:Making One Unconditional Commitment

but it is highly un-likely

The ethical thus breaks down because the power to makecommitments undermines itself.

commitments

very ease of making commit-ments would further the inevitable breakdown of the ethical sphere

The person in the aestheticsphere keeps open all possibilities and has no fixed identity thatcould be threatened by disappointment, humiliation or loss

Indeed, the very ubiquity of theNet generally makes any such local stand seem irrelevant

passionless and reflective character of the age

ubiquitous commentatorswho deliberately detach themselves from the local practices out ofwhich specific issues grow

elite public

abandons itself to the idea that everything that anyone does is done in order to give it [the Public] something to gossip about

Look then at his words and all the writings which have been completed. Give heed then, you hearers and you also, the angels and those who have been sent, and you spirits who have arisen from the dead. For I am the one who alone exists, and I have no one who will judge me. For many are the pleasant forms which exist in numerous sins, and incontinencies, and disgraceful passions, and fleeting pleasures, which (men) embrace until they become sober and go up to their resting place. And they will find me there, and they will live, and they will not die again.

But the problem with onlyusing links is how claustrophobic it can feel… ‍It's like navigating Mirkwood Forest at night—with only a torch. Sure it’s adventurous, but sometimes you want the birds-eye view.

The power dynamics of persuasive technologies are changing. Access to tools and technologies of persuasion is not egalitarian.

level of manipulation so great it effectively takes agency away from those targeted

emotional thinking threatens to undermine the very legitimacy of the system, as voters are essentially provoked to move in whatever direction someone with power and money wants

they aren’t “breaks”, they are manufactured to hold onto attention

USB connectors won’t stand a chance on our timelines.

counted

entities, connections and co-presence logic

three-layer model

But the sequentiality of words and old-fashioned writing have until now compromised that representation, requiring authors to force sequence on their material, and curtail its interconnections.

the fact that we need to layer abstraction upon abstractions says more about what we see the need to abstract from than where we are abstracting towards

Commentary

Another good example for institutional limitations would be the creation process of find(1)’s peculiar command line options.

pic (a drawing language)

non-hierarchical control flow

words or lines

Rewriting History

To some extent, this describes the difference between highlightingor underlining on the one hand, and marginal comments on the other

An asterisk that a student pens next to a passage describing events that led up to the French Revolution, material that he believes will be covered on the final exam, is qualitatively different than the exclamation point that a reviewer marks beside a claim she doesn’t believe in a paper she is reviewing for an academic journal.

visual

because of the parallels between coding and language, language skills might be more relevant

the agent automatically decides to search further and display subsequent articles with links to the original article

A computer environment in which both humans and computer-based agents have active roles

concepts not available with a see-and-point interface

We can be easily overwhelmed by all the capabilities of a large application, but if the application discreetly rearranges the interface from time to time to offer us only the features of current interest to us, we can get the feeling that everything we need is easy to find and readily at hand.

in designing Sun's home page we decided we needed to change it drastically every month to keep the users' interest

flexible in the amount of feedback it provides

Real expressive power comes from the combination of language, examples, and pointing.

With a little understanding of the language