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Official Twitter account of the pioneering online community. Since 1985 and going strong!
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Coming up: Authors and apology experts Susan McCarthy and Marjorie Ingall join media personality Angie Coiro to discuss their book ‘Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case For Good Apologies‘ Feb. 28 – March 13, 2023. Discussion link forthcoming. simonandschuster.com/books/Sorry-So…
Grateful Dead fans! Inkwell welcomes Gary Lambert and David Gans, cohosts of TALES FROM THE GOLDEN ROAD (facebook.com/tftgr/), a weekly talk show on SiriusXM's Grateful Dead Channel. Follow the two week conversation at tinyurl.com/tales-goldenro…
Geologist Andrew Alden discusses his book, _Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City_, in which he excavates the ancient story of Oakland’s geologic underbelly and reveals how its silt, soil, and subterranean sinews are intimately entwined with its human history—and future.…
Where the internet began.
What I like best about the Well is that the "forward thinkers" on it were strongly opposed to taking the service to the Web in 1995, because the command line interface was sort of a "proving ground" for users that weeded out a subset of potential users. The Bruce Katz era.
Street Photos, Joseph Selle, Fox Movie Flash From the 1930s to the 70s Selle was a fixture around Market Street, Union Square & the Cliff House taking candid pictures of tourists, shoppers, and movie goers. Over 1,000,000 frames still exist. #sfhistory andreweskind.com
So you guys were all dissing us Jews for having secret space lasers, but with Chinese spy balloons floating around, who ya gonna call?
Okay, I finally, finally found the one I'm truly excited about. Immediately signed up for the waitlist. Oh, I hope it lives up to its goals! wired.com/story/plaintex…
Two week ongoing conversation with John Markoff, author of "Whole Earth," a biography of Stewart Brand. Check in every day for more of the asynchronous conversation. tinyurl.com/whole-earth
Bruce Sterling discusses #StateoftheWorld in 2023 w/@jonl @TheWELL well.com “I’ve got a lot to say” @bruces (also prescient in making his account private) On Russia in 1998 wired.com/1998/01/sterli… & chairs in 2000 wired.com/2000/07/chairs/ @wired #BruceSterling
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The titans of the new ergonomy have billions of dollars riding on your butt. Bruce Sterling reports from behind the battle lines. The New Economy is fundamentally about sitting on your ass. The...
the year 2023 in fiction dept. From Bruce Sterling's "Islands in the Net" (1988), set in this year:
RSS to @TheWELL's State of the World 2023: people.well.com/conf/inkwell.v…
I made a map of what I think is all the archive images from @SFMTAPhoto Archive (about 15,000 images) It works ok (some images from the 40's are missing) & will probably look familiar to some of you. Take a look & let me know what you think. #sfhistory sfmemory.org/maps/sfmta.php
.@davidgans nails it on The Well this morning: "'Woke' is a word used by assholes to stigmatize common decency." #woke
<sweeney> on @TheWell points out that it was intended originally as satire. snopes.com/news/2022/08/0…
Ahem. We are beloved.
I would say "true love of conversation," vs drive-by posting...
There is such a social media site, owned by the users, no ads, no bots, in continuous use since 1985. @WIRED called it the most influential social network of its time. Check it out @TheWELL
I wish you guys would all get together and make a new social media app without elon that you guys own and control in a worker co op so that you don’t have to deal with people like elon mistreating you or underestimating your abilities. Ducks would be a cool motif.
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