provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
Dear @Apple, not a complaint, but an emoji curiosity: help me understand why đis red, and not green. And why đ is blue, and not red.
Danny Meyertwitter.comlove observations like these. we assume people inside legit institutions are all competent, when the truth is everyone is just winging it and we can always make things better.
âi should build up the technical skills so that I can use them creativelyâ is very precisely backward
River Dakinitwitter.com
The fork on your plate isnât inevitableâitâs propaganda. Its design has been polished by centuries of iteration, yes, but also by centuries of forgetting. We stopped asking why a fork looks the way it does because it became too familiar to question. Itâs not a tool anymore; itâs a dogma.
But supernormal isnât about inevitability. Itâs about normalization. When something becomes so ubiquitous, so embedded in daily life, it disappears from view. Thatâs not just true for objectsâitâs true for the systems we live by. Markets, money, time.
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