#45: Redistributing the internet

💩 Cool shit

Conversation simulator - This sounds silly but it’s surprisingly educational. It’s a science-backed guide to navigate difficult conversations.

Literature clock - A clock displaying literature quotes of the current time.

Jeen-Yuhs - Saying this website is unique might be an understatement. Fitting of Kanye? Perhaps.

Typatone - Create music by typing.

Weird Spotify - Get a playlist based on a sentence you type.

Demon Deleter - A game entirely in Google Sheets, based on the idea of deleting data from cells. I love the ingenuity of this.

Emojitracker - A realtime tracker of emoji use on Twitter. For all the Gen Zs who want to kill the 😂 emoji, it remains number 1. And it’s not even close.

💎 Word gems

This week, starting with a rather compelling tweet in favor of NFTs:

How Resilient is the Internet? (Every / Nikhil Mulani)

There’s been a slew of major internet outages recently, and this serves as an argument away from consolidation to the grand promise of web3 in true decentralization. I love the idea, but I struggle to see how we wrestle control away from tech giants. Ultimately someone needs to have a farm of physical servers, and it seems very unlikely that will be everyone

Yes, and-ing this. Can we use a decentralized web to yield control of our data and make others accountable for its abuse? All of this feels like a tech + legislation challenge.

Although it seems difficult to imagine a way out of our current moment, centralization does not have to be a necessary evil in order for us to enjoy all that the internet has to offer. Governments are realizing that cloud services and application platforms are of comparable public value to national utilities, and are trying to spur domestic investments in alternative offerings to encourage more choices for consumers. At an architectural level, the growing popularity of Web3 and blockchain-based applications and platforms hints at a longer-term path towards a more resilient internet.

Meet your new A.I. best friend (Fortune/ Yana Zalesskaya)

This is a creepy nightmare.

Imagine a future where people elect to have an A.I. companion whose relationship with you begins at birth, reading everything from your grades at school to analyzing your emotions after social interactions. Connecting your diary, your medical data, your smart home, and your social media platforms, the companion can know you as well as you know yourself. It can even become a skilled coach helping you to overcome your negative thinking patterns or bad habits. It can provide guidance and gently nudge you towards what you want to accomplish, encouraging you to overcome what’s holding you back.

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