Gravity Notes
“a notepad to capture quickly, and come back to what’s important. No accounts, no folders, no noise.” Purchased.
Post-Algorithmic Modernism: Algorithmic Design is already dated, here’s what’s next
“Post-Algo moves away from “doin’ it for the ‘gram,” and back to tactile, textured, layered spaces. It craves touch and experience. It doesn’t need likes. It’s a return to one’s brand, one’s needs, and what you like when you’re not on your phone. It’s about developing your own taste.”
The only taboo left is copyright infringement
“The culture that feels the most dangerous, and, thus, exciting to young people, will be what you can’t see online. And the most dangerous thing for platforms is not racist garbage. It’s unmonetizeable content. The “metric” that will matter most going forward will not be the numbers at the bottom of a post or video, but the human beings in a room that left their house to experience something. Which, of course, will be filmed and put back online. You can’t escape the matrix entirely.”
This afternoon all the colour drained out of the world. In black and white a storm hurled itself at the windows while lightning cracked and drains overflowed. I saw myself flinch on a video call. On the street WhatsApp someone asked: “Did anyone just see a horse without a rider galloping up the street?!!” I heard it but I didn’t look. Is this how it all ends: each of us alone at home, messaging with increasing levels of desperation and punctuation?
The Great Stay and the quiet collapse of the marketing job market
The Great Stay “… is driven by fear. Marketers are staying not because they love their role but because they’ve looked at the alternatives and concluded that the risk of leaving exceeds the pain of staying. And the more they do that, the more the job market slows.”
Molly Guard
“the little plastic safety cover you have to move out of the way before you press some button of significance.”
Ant paths
Source: tumblr.com
The Best Book Covers of the Last Decade. (lithub.com)
Links Supply: collects links shared on Bluesky. (links.supply)
Dumb Canes by Rabia S. Akhtar. (instagram.com)
Phantom Obligation: the guilt you feel for something no one asked you to do. (terrygodier.com)
What are you favourite well-made apps or sites? (unsung.aresluna.org)
A collection of found cassette tapes. (intertapes.net)
A Charlie Brown Christmas: Live at The Jazz Estate. (youtube.com, 58:20)
What podcasts do to our brains. “Silence activates the brain’s “default mode” — and that’s good. Quiet time makes space for self-reflection, planning, and daydreaming.” (vox.com)
Recipe for a good week An ingredient that works for me: take a bit of time to just stare out the window, drinking some coffee, checking in with the locals (birds, bunnies, and squirrels). (tracydurnell.com /via Chris Glass)
Radiant Computer. “We believe the current trajectory of personal computing is leading us to a less free world, and that only a new computing movement rooted in human dignity and creativity can change its course.” (radiant.computer)
The Resonant Computing Manifesto. “… rethinking the system architectures, design patterns, and business models that have undergirded the tech industry for decades.” (resonantcomputing.org)
Best Songs of 2025. “Songs I love more than demon-hunters, damselflies and the numbers six or seven.” (saidthegramophone.com)
Somewhere in Utah (flickr.com)
What is My Cookie Cutter (reddit.com)
Red nose studio’s puppets. (rednosestudio.com)
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.” Emphasis mine. (wired.com)
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.” (blobzine.substack.com)
The story behind this photo is really great. (instagram.com)
