GLITCHET

Excellent long read on the nature of things that disappear from the web. While instant duplication and redistribution can save something from ever disappearing, we still lose things to the ocean that is the internet. If a major host of something goes down or removes that thing, there might be duplicates out there - simply too deep, unindexed, on the ocean floor of the web.

A great historical read on one of the most important women in space computing history.

Online vigilantes track down and shame child pornography consumers and sites. A look at the psychology of such a person - and the dangers of doing the dirty work outside of the law.

GhostSec and CtrlSec target "Islamic extremist content" from behind the guise of the internet. It's democratically and legally ambiguous, but it also makes for great reading.

Oh, just another Minority Report-is-actually-a-futureactive-documentary blog post about Peeple and China's social reputation system.

There's definitely some stuff online I'm not proud of (for instance: being a preteen on the internet). The worst part about this is that people are so frequently unable to perceive the depth or change in another person. A lack of perception of changing sense of identity in others - a difficulty understanding that you at one time may not even be tangentially similar to you in another time except in name and face.

I've been thinking a lot about scale lately, which had an interesting run in with this article. It seems like scale, city-congregation, and the "squashing" of space caused by ubiquitous, service-based technology are fundamentally changing the way that we interact, date, and socialize. I have a weird 90s-kid nostalgia for a past that I never experienced (thanks Hollywood), but it seems like we might have to start planning for an interpersonal future that's vastly different. Bring me my headset.