🔗 Links
💡 Wisecrack - Laugh harder, get smarter: This has become one of my favorite YouTube channels of late (so much that I support it on Patreon now). They have a few series, but I am currently obsessed with Philosophy of Everything, where they break down the meaning and philosophical foundations (where applicable) of contemporary films, TV shows, and games. They do so in a way that is quite engaging, down-to-earth, and often funny.
Some great ones to get you started include The Philosophy of: Rick & Morty (which helped me understand so much more of the depth to this show), Bioshock (a video game that tackles and critiques libertarianism and other themes), and Ghost in the Shell, one of the most celebrated animes of all time.
🗺 How digital maps have changed what it means to be lost - The Atlantic: “There are many ways to be lost. Some have declined due to technology; others are newly born. But in every situation, to be lost is to be vulnerable. Vulnerability is frightening, often dangerous, but it also breeds connection—with people, and with places.”
📖 I have forgotten how to read - The Globe and Mail: ”Great researchers such as Maryanne Wolf and Alison Gopnik remind us that the human brain was never designed to read. Rather, elements of the visual cortex – which evolved for other purposes – were hijacked in order to pull off the trick. The deep reading that a novel demands doesn't come easy and it was never "natural." Our default state is, if anything, one of distractedness.”
📉 Facebook lost daily users for the first time ever in the U.S. and Canada - Recode: ”It was a small but negative change to daily active users in Facebook’s most valuable market.”
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