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This 94-year-old Californian was fed up with depressing news. So he launched a Substack
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This 94-year-old Californian was fed up with depressing news. So he launched a Substack

When the World Wide Web launched into the public domain in 1993, it came with the great promise of a so-called global village, where people could come together over niche interests and earnest observations. Now, we get algorithms that bombard us with anger-inducing slop. Hans Lehmann, who is 94 and lives in the artsy little town of Carmel-by-the-Sea on California's Monterey Peninsula, fights...

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When the World Wide Web launched into the public domain in 1993, it came with the great promise of a so-called global village, where people could come together over niche interests and earnest observations.

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