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You Are Not a Server
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on April 26, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: A bank of servers with an illustration of Sir Leicester Dedlock by Kyd [Joseph Clayton Clark], Free Library of Philadelphia; THR illustration.
We have been trained by social media to use our brains as servers.
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