This is the story of how content might now mostly be garbage and some of what that might mean. Yesterday while doing my morning “check-in” I was reading Jeremy Caplan’s newsletter Wonder Tools (highly recommended) where he was heaping praise on an app called “Oasis”.  His effusiveness was no hyperbole.  I have never seen a…

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QcFMAiVx6A[/embedyt]   Can music change the world?  Sollee’s call to optimism and activism.  Speaks to my Kentucky hillsandhollars-billy sensabilities.  Be hopeful, give over part of your day to a Kentucky native son, and learn to listen. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoF691k1lEs[/embedyt]  

I know this is a clickbaity, but I think more readers need to be aware of Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic Linkdump.  With the glut of available linkdumps in the ether-sphere, why amplify this one? First, Doctorow’s links are generated by a deep and long standing  well of info he calls the memex.  It is a 20+…