Day 1,675: real sort, wither, grapple
More urgent even than the rise of fake news is a lack of the real sort.
As social networks wither, platform operators and users should devote less time to the old battles and more to grappling with the new.
Artwork of the day
The Withered Tree
William CollinsStyle:RomanticismGenre:landscape
Word of the day
real sort: real type
wither: (to cause) to become weak and dry and decay:
grapple: to hold someone while fighting with him or her:
Quote of the day
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin