Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window

'When we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches.’ — Nicholas Carr, 'The Shallows'

The Alienation of the Knowing

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SATURDAY

I seem to have acquired a case of psoriasis, or maybe dermatitis, affecting my hands…