Sporeshelf: The Fading of the Elves

A sketchy cartoon of the site owner, Ellie, resting her chin on her hands, looking cheekily to her right; she is surrounded by books, papers, and mushrooms.

Now you get to have a taste of my personal research track throughout grad school. This was one of the articles I used for reference in an early assignment, and it’s one of the few that managed to stay on my mind—and in my heart—ever since: The Fading of the Elves: Techno-Volunteerism and the Disappearance…

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On Toxic Communities and How to Remedy Them (Hopefully)

A YouTube header image, but it says YerTerb.

As the year progresses, I find myself becoming less and less tolerant of the internet as a whole. Mostly because of knee-jerk reactions, tribalism, slogans, ragebaiting, hypocrisy, and other general unpleasantness. “Support artists!” (Follows and buys merch only from popular artists.) “People should succeed on merit!” (Watches videos and streams of only famous content creators.)…

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