We have Renaissance humanism from the 1500s. We need to have a dose of Digital humanism in the 2000s.

It would seem that people who spend too much time online experience more anxiety. Could it be that we've evolved to only be able to manage so many inputs and amounts of variety of those inputs? The experiencing of too much variety in our environments and the resultant anxiety may be a result of the limits of Ross Ashby's law of requisite variety within human systems.

This may also be why chaos machines like Donald Trump are effective at creating anxiety in a populace whose social systems are not designed to handle so many crazy ideas at once.

Implications for measurements of resilience?

Jeff Jarvis specifically points out the shift in technology which is now injecting more humanity into the process.

All Tech Is Human

We definitely need more focus on digital humanism.

Social media should be comprised of people from end to end. Corporate interests inserted into the process can only serve to dehumanize the system.

Robin Sloan is in the same camp as Greg McVerry and I.

https://www.levenger.com/reading-1140/bookends-and-bookstands-23025/tree-of-knowledge-book-stand-17300.aspx

Interesting piece of material culture hearkening back to an older analog era, but compatible with new digital technology (note the cut out for a power cord with use of a tablet or other digital reading/display device.)

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1514938507407421440.html

A former Redditor's perspective on Musk's purchase offer of Twitter. Sounds like he gets many parts right, but doesn't address the specific toxicity of social media's part in amplifying it all using metrics and algorighms which encourage the fringes to fight. Simply turning off algorithms and tamping down on amplifying marginal content would make it all vastly more human.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTSEr0cRJY8

Starts out with four and a half minutes of anti-crypto and Web3 material. Presumably most of her audience is in the web3 space.

http://youvegotkat.neocities.org

Neocities: http://neocities.org

The Yesterweb: http://yesterweb.org

Marginalia Search: https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random

It [the IndieWeb] is so so queer. Like it's super gay, super trans, super good.

The indie web also questions tech solutionism which often attempts to solve human problems by removing the human element. But easily the most remarkable and powerful thing about the internet is the ability it has to connect us with one another.

Highlights of some important humanist problems that haven't had nearly enough work on the internet. Instead we allow rampant capitalism of certain areas without forcing companies to spend time working at the harder problems.

It's depressing to see that this fundamental problem of the early web seemingly has seen almost no progress in almost a quarter of a century.

https://write.as/matt/what-would-a-real-web3-look-like

This roughly reflects my own thoughts about the "next web".

Perhaps we need more songlines in our instructional design?

This is also a plea for a more humanistic approach to technology in general.