1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

My magnum opus - a unified field theory of why the post-literate society spells disaster for civilisation as we know it

jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

It's become a hobby of some sort to make accounts on platforms and wait a rather long time for everyone else. But whent they evetually turn up, its a joyful moment. Same happened with Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal... still waiting on Session, Distrikt and Mastodon.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,061,307!