What Maggie Appleton thinks about war
Designer, anthropologist and illustrator who writes about the web, tools for thought and generative AI on her digital garden at maggieappleton.com. Her 2022 essay "The Dark Forest and Generative AI" put the reverse Turing test -- proving you are not a language model -- into the vocabulary of the independent web.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Maggie Appleton has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI considered how quickly we forget this level of suffering is possible. How easily it becomes acceptable.
↗In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrorsmaggieappleton.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIt reminded me we are not as far as we like to imagine from mass, global, industrial-scale death. Just over a hundred years past it. Likely only a few decades from it.
↗In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrorsmaggieappleton.com 3rd of 3 in this piece