Continuing last month’s Old Internet vs New Internet musing, we had the privilege to have both MAYAgirl#1 from MAYAworld and Sari from Sublime on the podcast (you can listen to them here and here) chatting about how we might make a better internet — one that isn’t owned by billionaires and instead safer, softer and slower.

These aren’t new ideas/ideals, so let us not forget Antirom, Rhizome, Irational.org, and Low Tech Magazine who have all been preaching this since the late 90s. And more recently, Metalabel’s Dark Forest, Hito Steryl on the importance of lo-fi aesthetics, Mark Fisher on the slow cancellation of the future, Rachel Tashjian on Opulent Tips, Kyle Chayka on why tumblr became popular because it’s obsolete, Apossible, as well as Kim Boutin’s Glitch Design Manifesto and her recently rebooted loadmo.re project to name a few more.

Thanks to Leila, Joanna, AL, Carlyn, Hannah, Saoirse, Gursharan and Steffen from Protein Agency for the links this month and we’d love to hear what  topics, themes or memes you’ve been obsessing over so we can include them in the next Supplement.

Until then,

Your friends at Protein✌️

P.S. In honour of this issue’s number and it’s continual relevance since being release in 1985, here’s Japanese Techno Girl playing a TR-707:

P.P.S We’ll save this for issue #909

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