Posts in: the internet
“A premonition is growing. I believe large swaths of the internet will be ceded, like it or not, to the creatures of the digital night: ghostly bots, cackling trolls, the baying hounds of attention. I imagine this future internet as a vast, boiling miasma, punctuated by signal towers poking up into the clear air: blogs & shops, beacons of reality & sincerity, nodes of a human overlay network.”
Some Things, Week 6, 2025
Photo by Yama Bato. You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism: “Trusted information networks have existed since long before the internet and mass media. These networks are in every town and city, and at their core are real relationships between neighbors—not their online, parasocial simulacra.” Simulacrum: “a representation or imitation of a person or thing.” 90’s Hip-Hop: A 45 plus minutes mix of Golden Era Classics + Rarities. Makara Peak Mountain Bike Park Wayfinding: Cool signs.
Snowy night vibes
r/TheNightFeeling
Link blogs rock
Sharing interesting links with commentary is a low effort, high value way to contribute to internet life at large. My approach to running a link blog
a recurrent theme is a fatigue with the style of self-narration that the platforms encourage — which, whether we realize it or not, has been heavily influenced by brand storytelling logics. We talk about ourselves like we’re products.
IMG_0001 is a site where you can watch random (forgotten) YouTube videos from when iPhones had a built-in “Send to YouTube” button.
Organic Software Directory lists software that has no external pressure (eg. from funding sources) to chase funding rounds, grow unsustainably, or to get acquired.
Remind me later is a comic about “technological problems.”
I don’t need these people’s psychodramas in my head anymore:
“The closest thing to a political point I want to make is that I’ve dedicated far too much brain-space, in recent years, to marinating in the psyches of the angry, cynical and damaged men currently ascendant in our politics – which is basically what you’re doing when you spend time on Twitter, idly surf online media, or consume most TV news.”