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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-15T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Pluribus\n\nWe were watching _Pluribus_ for the last 10 days and finished the first season\ntoday. I have mixed feelings about the show. I especially found the first few\nepisodes hard to watch because I couldn't stand Carol. It got easier towards\nthe end of the season but I can't say that I loved the show. Nevertheless, it\nwas an interesting watch. I especially liked the depiction of the collective\npower that humans possess. It's eerie to think about the connection between our\nindividuality and the problem of coordinating with others. I read a\ntake\n(Turkish) that said the show is trying to teach communism to American masses\nbut I disagree. Although the world becomes communist in a few hours after\neveryone gets \"infected,\" Pluribus' virus is not of communism but McLuhan's. It\nturns the world into the global village:\n\n> Global village is not created by the motor car or even by the airplane. It's\n> created by instant electronic information movement. The global village is at\n> once as wide as the planet and as small as a little town where everybody is\n> maliciously engaged and poking his nose into everybody else's business. The\n> global village is a world in which you don't necessarily have harmony. You\n> have extreme concern with everybody else's business. And much involvement in\n> everybody else's life. — Marshall McLuhan\n\nThe global village, once formed, renders game theory useless. And thus, it\nremoves the hardest problem of communism: the coordination. In this sense, I\nfound Pluribus deeply anti-communist. Communism is shown as only possible in\nthe case of an alien hive mind with a biological imperative to cooperate. The\nobverse, of course, is that we, as humans, have a biological imperative that is\nnot suitable for communism.\n\nKagi Small Web\n\nIt's been a few weeks since I started using kagi as my\nsearch engine. I love this kind of initiative that tries to form a more humane\ninternet (I believe we need to\nreclaim the internet). Apart from my\nRSS reader, Kagi Small Web has become my go-to to\nread stuff on the internet. To my pleasure, they also released it as a mobile\napp last week!\n\nCrucial Tracks\n\n> What are crucial tracks? A crucial track is a song that changes the direction\n> of your life or helps you see the world in a different way. The songs that\n> represent relationships or trigger memories. The songs that make you, _you_.\n>\n> Crucial Tracks is a music journal with a simple idea: share the important\n> songs in your life. Every member gets one post per calendar day. Use a daily\n> prompt or pick any subject you'd like!\n\nI. LOVE. THIS! I heard about Crucial Tracks\nthanks to Steve Makofsky.\n\nThis was my first post\nthere:\n\n{{< figure width=600 src=\"/images/the-global-village/crucialtracks.png\" >}}\n\nYou can subscribe to my feed\nwith your favorite RSS reader.\n\n_I wish I could share all the love that's in my heart_  \n_Remove all the bars that keep us apart_  \n_I wish you could know what it means to be me_  \n_Then you'd see and agree_  \n_That every man should be free_ (I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free)",
  "title": "the global village"
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