mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06co-host, "almost impossible" / author, "subprime attention crisis"
🖥️ @omar@social.omar.website and i have been talking alot about the intimate, emotional sensation associated with particular parts of the computer experience, and reclaiming this as the core of what makes a computer *a computer*
"the computer is a feeling" is the result:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QbPa3URLo5cp07bi6U-vTFjX_4btORAlwSnSRxEapsk/edit
dead
you don’t miss “the open web” you miss your twenties
Hello!
now that i’ve committed to the idea of sunk cost fallacy, it’s ironically proving very hard to discard
🎻 “classically trained shitposter”
that thing where technology people are optimistic enough to believe in building godlike machine intelligence in our lifetime but scoff at the idea of creating a functional government bureaucracy
tonight: reading about the mechanics of this wonderful device for islamic geomancy, circa middle 13th century
🧑⚖️ shower thought:
we have model congress competitions, but it’d prob be more educational for kids to have model administrative agency as an extracurricular
@mwichary@mastodon.online’s book arrived! absolutely stunning
(from the financial times)
aaaaaaaaaagh
tfw when the story rights to a company are more valuable than the LTV of the business itself
@tf@mastodon.cloud are in Wired today, talking about the TikTok ban and the retreat from the open web!