Jonathan VanAntwerpen

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“We are spiritual beings having a human experience…” #mumufresh

“Email was a different story. Email was mail, and I loved the mail. In my youth, I ran to the box to see if there might be an envelope whose contents would change the course of my life...What was email but the chance for more friends, more love, more work?”

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The internet can be toxic. But there are also online oases where mutual care flourishes The rest of the internet can learn a lot from online ‘informal networks’.

In corners of the internet, nurtured by passionate communities, “informal networks” thrive unnoticed — friendly, constructive, and focused on real-world connections, not clicks or engagement.

Good morning.

The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.

Losing the Internet Archive is a frightening prospect.

In the age of instant gratification, who should be the owners of our collective internet memories?

The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I…

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things...