read<>write

writing itself was akin to engineering: “The technology is language. In order to invent something useful, you have to know what is needed now, but also you have to know the present state of the technology.” Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker Jason McBride (the medium is the message)

some institutions that seem “stagnant” are actually powerful forces for generating legitimacy. It being slow is the point, much in the same way that a song isn’t played as one chord. Music isn’t played to be finished. Much of the importance of modern institutions is to act as lightning rods for negotiation and conversation. If you are *only* a tech... See more

Simon de la Rouviere • Inside Andreessen's Techno-Optimism Manifesto: NPC Meme as Ideology

Another way of putting it is like this: a sunset is sublime because a human cannot make one, its existence transcends human ability; meanwhile, a picture of a sunset is merely beautiful because it reflects, through human invention, a thing that no amount of human ingenuity can actually replicate in real life. What’s more, a sunset is sublime becaus... See more

there’s nothing visual you can cram in a glowing rectangle that fucks with your brain quite like a sunset so if we can’t seek the physical sublime what are we supposed to look at where’s that constant amazement that we can check in on every so often whenever we can stand it think what we’ve come up with so far, anyway is: everyone the incomprehe... See more

In the beginning the internet seemed good. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Jia Tolentino

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