Francesco
@fran
Francesco
I’m not a complete person and I don’t want to write from that place. I’m still incomplete, why force myself to speak from the pedestal of someone who has all the answers and has learned to steer clear of ambiguity?
One of the big losses I see in the vibe shift is the opportunity for writers to loose themselves from the chains of personality and just write interesting things.
Pen & paper and Damn
Perfectly elaborates why I always, and especially now, felt icly about Substack and writing on there. It’s like I never fit in, because I wanted to be my whole sense and write about whatever the heck stuck in my mind that week and instead I’ve been forced to follow some sort of marketable thread that is obviously more beneficial to the system it is for myself
Few, if any, of this moment’s apparently unstoppable tech platforms will survive for long. The people on them will eventually leave—when they’re forced to do so by the continuous degradation of their experience, or because they’re forced to do so because their governments put the hammer down, as Brazil recently demonstrated—or sometimes when they... See more
Erin Kissane • Against the Dark Forest
OneLook Dictionary Search and Thesaurus
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thesaurus with more jazz (although it looks like craigslist)
Ketamine, hold space, set boundaries, “do the work”, do you know your attachment style? Microdose, meditate, integrate, release stored trauma, radical acceptance, inner child work, raise your vibration, have you maybe tried a mold cleanse? Adaptogen coffee, shadow work, connect with your divine feminine, past-life regressions, are you going to the... See more
I don’t know about you, but when you put these all in the same basket, to me it really does sound like I’m reciting a magic spell or something
But all of the arguments being made today against using generative AI to answer questions sound exactly like the arguments against citing web pages as sources in the 1990s. The argument then was basically “ Anyone can publish anything on the web, and even if a web page is accurate today, it can be changed at any time ” — which was true then and... See more
John Gruber • ★ Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Generative AI Bullshit Bathwater
In the beginning there was the Internet, and the marketers did proclaim, "behold, a vast and untapped opportunity to creat customers". And those that came first built things, and were proud. "Look at the things we built, like advertising platforms and product analytics, and look at what we can measure"! And these people, rich from their forays into... See more
Do marketers make the internet a worse place? Specifically digital and social media marketers
Cruel optimism, social media and big tech
In the beginning there was the internet.
Vanessa Clark Art @folkestoneinspired
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try contacting Vanessa Clarke to announce the directory on her podcast?