Because logging in after a while away, it was painfully clear just how broken it all was. All the things that made social media so vital a decade or two ago have fallen apart, replaced by algorithms, engagement hacks, and endless, bottomless, screaming.
“My brain is still craving for those highs from the early internet.” explorator.dev/addiction…
“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.” garbageday.email
What is My Cookie Cutter (reddit.com)
Read: This is the story of Possibly Chaos and Text Goblin. I have no idea if it’s true, but it’s nice.
“The phone eats time; it makes us live the way people do inside a casino, dropping a blackout curtain over the windows to block out the world, except the blackout curtain is a screen, showing too much of the world, too quickly.”
“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.”
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.
Ghimli Sans: A font with “a nice ol’ boozer vibe.”
Marginalia Search: “Find lost old websites.”
