Housekeeping Note: I’m considering writing some essays on online culture and computer history and sending them out over this newsletter. I don’t plan on sending out anything more than once or twice a month, but I’m a little worried about the possibility of it being too much email and that not being what you signed up for. Let me know in the comments if that’s something that would bother you. And if you like the newsletter and could spare a few bucks, consider “fake subscribing” below. -Kevin
Selections from the Web:
Anonymous and Nell Zink: How to Not Sell Out
Anton Jäger: How the World Went from Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics covid-test-false-positive-failure-cdc-documents)
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins: Yesterday’s Men
Jessica Winter: Who Gets the Blame When Schools Shut Down
Moxie Marlinspike: My First Impressions of Web3
Books and Journal Articles:
David Nofre: “The Politics of Early Programming Languages,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (2021)
please write the essays. just include them as links if you end up writing a lot of them?
I'd love to get some Kevin Baker essays on online culture and computer history in my inbox a few times a month