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Hope is Work
Emily Sokolow • Hope is Work
This is the ultimate trapdoor in the hall of fame; to become a prisoner of one's own persona. The desire for recognition in an increasingly atomized world lures us to be who strangers wish us to be. And with personal development so arduous and lonely, there is ease and comfort in crowdsourcing your identity. But amid such temptations, it's worth... See more
Gurwinder • The Perils of Audience Capture
we are not people that want software to work .
- we prefer it half-working.
- we prefer it half-working.
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“The issue for mystics is not whether we use our language accurately to describe the world that is really there but whether we see that the things created by our language have the impermanence of foam on the face of the unnameable, the unknowable, the unutterable. For Aristotle and Descartes; the silence of animals that does not give rise to speech
... See moreif you give your fucks to the unliving—if you plant those fucks in institutions or systems or platforms or, gods forbid, interest rates—you will run out of fucks.
Mandy Brown • A Unified Theory of Fucks
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is travelled by dark feet and dark wings.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is travelled by dark feet and dark wings.
Shaun Usher • What a world
“I would scarcely have admitted it at that moment but there is something extraordinary in the ordinary practice of keeping animals as domestic companions. The unconditional love we are capable of expressing for small beings can mask but not overcome the fact that we love what we can never finally know. We can love only what cannot be fully
... See moreBut I believe—I know from having given and received, from having lost and been renewed—that enough of them will come back that you can keep on giving, for a while at least, for as long as any of us has time to give.
Mandy Brown • A Unified Theory of Fucks
OLLOS is an experiment that organizes everything in my personal computing environment on one unified timeline.