I'll quietly ruin this by noting that the web has always...
I'll quietly ruin this by noting that the web has always been interpreted as a natively postmodern artifact because of when it was born, but software as a discipline is high modernist. Algorithmic feeds are a failed attempt to assert modernist strategies in a postmodern context.
I took Twitter off my phone to read more. This morning I...
I took Twitter off my phone to read more. This morning I re-read T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land on the train. It's a panoply of random voices collaged together, impossible to follow, and fills you with dread and despair. And I realized it's sort of a perfect replacement.
If you want to take a break from being consumed by despair,...
If you want to take a break from being consumed by despair, I finally finished my usesthis.com interview, nine years after @waferbaby asked. It's 3,300 words so take your time and savor every Emacs mention. usesthis.com/...
TikTok Teens: (Perform elaborate 20-second choreography about their chronic depression/lack of economic and educational options while wearing food service uniforms, driving millions of views to a China-controlled platform with no compensation.)
Sometimes I want to create an anonymous MEDIA AND TECH...
Sometimes I want to create an anonymous MEDIA AND TECH INSIDER TELLS IT LIKE IT IS twitter accounts where you shit all over everyone but after about three posts I'd just end up writing "we all have our struggles and working inside of big orgs is challenging btw this is Paul."
Reminds me of when my nephew (the one getting married, but...
Reminds me of when my nephew (the one getting married, but back then he was eight) made a card for my dying grandfather that said “dear pop pop have a good time in heaven."
<three months later> And that's why we're introducing...
<three months later> And that's why we're introducing the BROTE, the re-usable canvas bag for carrying your MANLY meals back from the General Store (slide comes up of canvas tote bag printed with mudflap girls, piled high with Bob's Red Mill Vegan Eggs and Morningstar Sausages) x.com/...
Despite repeated urgent requests over several years, the...
Despite repeated urgent requests over several years, the children regularly refuse to contribute to the household grocery discourse. Yet they frequently complain about the choices we make on their behalf. I have now distributed this document to the children.