Finished @sarahjeong's Internet of Garbage. Enough ideas there that I'll be forced to write a book review for the first time in a long time.
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@tieguy but i do want to return to it because it's growing to be more important now that extralegal regimes trump domestic law -
@sarahjeong as Eben put it to me c. 2008, who has more power over speech/policy—CEO of Google or governor of most states? Historically new. -
@sarahjeong ("new" is oversimplication for 140, but yeah... definitely larger scope and more centralized than in most of history.) -
@tieguy i think "new" is correct, would like to hear reasons why not! -
@sarahjeong in speech area, some analogies to company towns; and in general the power amassed by the railroad barons really was amazing. -
@tieguy oh very true! and malls in small towns -
@sarahjeong good one. In knowledge context, it is *amazing* how *awful* Britannica was on gender/race—and also hugely influential. -
@sarahjeong in general, no 1 person in old media had power like Google CEO, but homogenous race/class ideology might as well have acted as 1
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