By 1995, I had already been online for nearly five years, and, being a teen, I was pretty worried about more people coming along and ruining the internet, so these kind of features on television or in magazines made me feel really irritable. In some ways the internet is worse now than it was then. It's more commercial, has turned into a giant money machine rather than the grassroots info sharing place it was then. In other ways, it is so much more amazing. The work I do now - using www tech to help non profits and activist orgs do outreach and accomplish more - would not be possible back then and feels really important and useful to me. Either way this report is surprisingly... accurate and reasonable.
a way to get totally emotionally derailed in the middle of the workday
while listening to music on shuffle, bon iver's "re: stacks" comes on.
dismay at my saturn tattoo is a common reaction from those in the planetary know. it bears mentioning that i've got jupiter on the other arm. i think it balances everything out. plus i ain't afraid of saturn. saturn gives much needed structure. everyone needs rules and boundaries. if you're going to be afraid of something, be afraid of neptune - the formless void. but you shouldn't be afraid of astrological archetypes - they're a part of you.
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don't you ever get lonely from time to time? don't let the system get you down.
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Just another day on earth.
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don't wake me up
"My fear isn’t that the Internet has enabled us to share our most private selves with an unknown public; nor is it that we’re constructing those meta-narratives on an hourly, even momentary basis. What I fear is that in doing so, and in championing the act as such, we are establishing a social imperative in which those who choose not to divulge—or to do so differently, or more slowly—are cast as social retrogrades."
