The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down

But maybe when the crash comes it’ll look like the dotcom crash: A Pets.com or two gets razed to the ground, but the new infrastructure remains, and we humans spend years—decades—weaving it into our systems. I was there for the dotcom crash. I could barely make rent, but it was delightful. I attended tech salons at people’s apartments. The price of admission was a six-pack. I switched to Linux and no one cared. I blogged day and night, as free as a bee. All I could do was read O’Reilly books, learn to code, and hang with friends. What a slice of heaven. And tech became less magical—more normal, more boring. Not driving culture, but reflecting it.

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We used to look forward to things

I hope we will either begin to detach ourselves from instant tech or find ways to use tech more intentionally to deliver a more immersive experience. To give us back time… porous time. Time to spend with a piece of art. Time to listen deeply. Time to world build.

The story behind this photo is really great.

I dig Antic bike’s brand (the bikes are pretty cool too).

Last Light On The Creek by Steven Weinberg.

“…without earth we are all finished. We couldn’t survive a second without its grace, we are sailors on a ship on a deep, dark unswimmable sea.”

Orbital

Anyone can make something that looks designed, but that doesn’t mean that design has happened

The Fundamentals Problem.

Trees and Shore by Claire Sherman.

‘Pebbling’ is the new term for when people share memes and gifs to those they are thinking of.

Words we love: Pebbling – a new love language / via kottke

Happy Halloween everyone! If you’re looking for something to get you through the day, here is an ongoing collection of spooky art, podcast episodes, videos, and articles.

Read: Personal Business

The type of business that both sustains and is sustained by a community.

The not-so-spooky origins of ‘ghost’ — and why the word still haunts our language (npr.org)

Read: Secondhand Embarrassment

Bookmarklets, a small selection of premade bookmarklets you can try.

Some things I liked this week:

These chair friends

This bit on finishing things, I added it to my collection of endings

This cute video: Beastie Boys through the years

This site: LOADMORE that “collects distinctive mobile experiences” worth the click just for the little mascot

Read: This company is turning empty offices across America into farms / via SC 2.4.4

Watch: In Search Of… Ghosts - Season 1 Episode 18 (23:24)

Words: a glossary for artificial intelligence

Subscribe: 31 Days of Halloween

Watch: Ghost Waltz (2:04)

Meandering River

Listen: Flow State: Okonski. A nice listen to go gently into your weekend.

Roadside Lights

Bay Dreaming

Mangos. Manuals. Media.: librarians, heroes of the apocalypse.

Science Fiction Movie Lettering: “Glowing letters were a big trend that started in the late 80s, most likely set off by the Alien franchise. And I can never get enough of the 3D type in early films.” /via The Future is Like Pie

Examples of Good and Bad UX in Improvised Signage in Movie Theaters: answering is there an end or mid-credit scene?

Blackboard Bold: “a style of writing bold symbols on a blackboard by doubling certain strokes” /via SC 2.4.4