drink from different fountains

But for me, for now, the friction is what I’m looking for. I am grateful — genuinely — for what Google and Apple and others did to make digital life easy over the past two decades. But too much ease carries a cost. I was lulled into the belief that I didn’t have to make decisions. Now my digital life is a series of monuments to the cost of... See more

But when I am served videos by someone who has been anointed with this stardom I don’t feel like I am inhabiting someone else’s taste but, rather, the taste of the algorithm.

I got really into a strange style of Twitter usage popularized by @visakanv and @Conaw. They would use Twitter as a sort of note-taking app or memex : weaving intricate webs of ideas, using Twitter’s quote-tweet and linking mechanisms for connecting related thoughts.

I think what’s important here too is that this isn’t about removing cultural nuance. It’s not about removing the richness of language or the richness of culture. It’s about kind of reorienting, I guess, our borders around things that aren’t violent. I mean, the current issue really is that, you know, culture and language are reinforcing a kind of

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The Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is ‘brain rot’ which they defined as: “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such

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(I told someone recently that the specific joy of stalking someone else’s Spotify account has been lost as more and more playlists are generated by the platform. It’s the opposite of intimacy, isn’t it? To stalk an algorithm? Like climbing a tree to look into your crush’s window and realizing someone else got there first...please don’t do this.)