While waiting at the group ride rendezvous, 6:50am this morning #BikeTooter
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While waiting at the group ride rendezvous, 6:50am this morning #BikeTooter
"I just have to wave my company credit card and bellow forth a wretched miasma of lies about no-code tools and generative AI, and voilà, some of you are unemployed now!"
"In the thirty years that passed, we have allowed exactly this type of soul-deadening tyranny to take hold of cyberspace — an unavoidable consequence of consolidating this once distributed and quirky medium into a small number of massive platforms."

I quoted a whole chunk on my blog, but I'll just say, go listen to this episode
know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/pay-attention-w-chris-hayes
"...social media, combined with accretive identity and a strong rhetorical bent, is quite literally inhibiting our ability to think. When everything we say is position-staking and identity construction we become dumber than my bird."
"Before there were blogs we had websites. Beautiful, random websites that felt more like a zine -- one page looking nothing like the one before or after it...I miss those days when content wasn't confined to categories, calendars, and links to vote a piece of content into a popularity contest."
2006
web.archive.org/web/20061006092137/http://www.airbagindustries.com/archives/airbag/boxes.php