David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
Go to just about any LATAM country or Carribean island. Go away from the resorts. Hell, just look over the fence - you will find MOUNTAINS of garbage. There is no trash collection, nowhere for this stuff to GO. So it piles up, it gets picked off by the wind. Eventually they just set it on fire - causing all sorts of other climate and health issues.
This is a real, never-ending American Colonialism - our idea of single use yet permeant.
the internet isn’t some alien force that descended upon us.
It’s just us, but bigger.
It’s just us, but bigger.
Joan Westenberg • The Original Sin of Everything
The average American has fewer than three friends, fewer than three people they would consider friends. And the average person has demand for meaningfully more. I think it's something like 15 friends or something.
The implication is that Meta will close that friendship gap with AI companions. Zuckerberg clarified they won't replace relationships... See more
kyla scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World Is Friction
It’s not just that he wants us to have more friends, he wants our new friends to be his AI creations. Gross.
“Imagine if you owned the Lakers or the Yankees, and put all the emphasis on the team brand—but kept reducing the pay to actual players.”
Ted Gioia • The Death of the Magazine
Genius is the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Adam Robbert • Attention is an Art Form
Repair Manifesto
The manifesto advocates for repair as a sustainable, cost-effective practice that empowers individuals, promotes independence, teaches engineering, and emphasizes resource conservation over recycling and consumerism.
assets.cdn.ifixit.comTechocalypse and The New Romantics
right to repair manifesto
The people we traditionally consider to be smartest are those best at some sort of a general math / reasoning ability.
This is not what genius is.
This is not what genius is.