Excellent piece on the current state of social media by Erin Kissane-
The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens’ Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet. In the game of Go, bad shape is the term for configurations of stones on the game board that are inefficient in achieving their offensive goal (territory capture) and unlikely to achieve their defensive goal (the state of “life”). […] Link
