https://mediahist.org/ - A free online resource, featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
https://stratechery.com/2022/meta-meets-microsoft/ - Terrifying, plausible that Microsoft will be the one who succeeds with VR/AR.
https://fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/squatters-of-the-metaverse-with-butterflies
Living in a place like this has helped me realize, as a lawyer, how profoundly our system of real property law is stacked against the natural order, and what a tall order it is to try to reinvigorate the idea of the commons in the face of public and private institutions addicted to the accumulation of surplus from the land they occupy. It has also helped me see with stark clarity the challenges in balancing the need to provide housing for our fellow humans with the need to leave room for our animal and plant neighbors, on a planet whose habitable space seems to be rapidly diminishing.
https://panelsandprose.com/2022/10/30/the-nebbs-the-social-realism-of-a-mid-list-sitcom/ - “The Nebbs illustrates how the conventions of the domestic comic strip visualized a tension between personal and social lives, self and society, that spoke to the complexities of modern American experience that was singular in American art and clearly invaluable to readers.”