someone's-gotta-do-it-eventually
@puellavulnerata @maradydd saw your mentions a while back of a 'neo-Usenet' concept you'd batted around. I'm haunted by similar ideas, mostly to obsolete Twitter – though a suitably generative system could replace Reddit et al as well. Would love to compare notes, at any level of roughness, if ever interested...
MATRIX (2017): Set in a world like ours, one where everyone has seen THE MATRIX (1999), except that afterwards everyone became viscerally aware that film was true—all of humanity is living in a simulation.
More a documentary than an action movie, MATRIX captures the effect of this revelation on society. There are three kinds of people: those who didn't care; those who wanted to escape to reality; and those who fell into catatonia.
Spoons are an object of ridicule and dissent. They are banned.
FidoNet, the dial-up BBS federation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet
April 1996 issue of @wired with a feature on Tom Jennings of Homocore #zine & #Fidonet titled "The Anarchist."
Read: https://www.wired.com/1996/04/jennings/amp/ https://octodon.social/media/rPO1iRV6rkdo6b4Yu9Q
the de-extinction of actual mastodons is at the fringes of possibility
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/magazine/the-mammoth-cometh.html
digital ephemeralizer of economics, governance, culture; https://twitter.com/gojomo