I liked this frame about public digital infrastructure:

2025-03-24 · Bits and Bobs 3/24/25

I liked this frame about public digital infrastructure:
- "If the contemporary internet is a city, Wikipedia is the lone public park; all the rest of our public places are shopping malls—open to the general public, but subject to the rules and logic of commerce."

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