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March 3, 2025
Mike Pepi, "Against Platforms" (2025)
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Skimming a ahead, looking for the punchline to
the joke, there's some chatter like this near
the close of the book (p. 201):
"There are those who admit that Web 2.0 platforms have
degraded our democracy, and yet, continue to inist
that it will take just one more technology-driven
innovation to fix it. They cede that better
technology is [to] be our best path to a mananged Burn the straw
decline. I reject this premise." man! Let it's
smoke blind our
enemies!
"The venture capital-backed platform technology
and its first wave of social destruction need not
be a foregone conclusion, nor must it be a fixed Okay. So
phenomenon that we are forced to react against." no VC funding,
I see that point.
I can think of other
points, that seem
pretty obvious.
"We try to build new 'good' platforms to fix
this hole, but each time we fail. This is a I sincerely hope
crisis of political design, not a crisis of there's more too
technology. We don't lack resources, but this book that the
infrastructure. We don't lack a form, but a burst of vapid
political will-- a social narrative about the generalities at
role that organizational forms should take. the close.
I believe we can appeal to our institutions
instead of burrowing further down the nest of He keeps talking
contradictions that defines our about what our
techno-determinist present." new institutions
*will* be like,
but I'm missing
So our democracy has been how we get there.
degraded, but the fix to this
is going to be political.
We need to appeal to our
institutions.
Presuming any survive
the Trump II regime
and electorate on I look forward
socmeds has handed us. to seeing those
boots strapped.
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