355 points by GeekyBear 23 days ago | 269 comments
An Age of Illiteracy(fiddlersgreene.substack.com) Civilizational decline is anticlimactic. For all our contemporary fascination with collapse, degeneration’s lived experience is humiliatingly ordinary. It’s just a series of broken systems, ruined people, and things falling apart.
Turning Down Upspin Infrastructure(groups.google.com) Upspin, like Unix and Plan 9, was intended to foster communities of sharing, but has been less successful at that than we hoped. As a consequence, with regret, we have decided to turn down the central infrastructure such as the keyserver over the coming months