Thomas
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Thomas
Even when the tradeoffs are more clear, I think that technology has to feel humane and serve very human purposes to be worthwhile. Most gadgets feel careless and unwholesome and I worry that they, subconsciously, cause us to treat our homes differently. They are not viscerally pleasing, and if you have enough of that sort of thing in your home I... See more
Simon Sarris • Careful Technology
most of the internet will be completely obsolete very soon.
it already feels like an abstraction we tolerate for lack of a better alternative. ai agents replacing it would essentially reduce the web to a set of apis & scraped data repositories—just raw material for agent-mediated interaction. no need for direct user... See more
signüllx.com
“Just as the Black Death gave way to the enlightenment in Europe I was playing with this idea that climate change could give way to the delightenment.”
Tristan Zimmermann
Slow Is Smooth And Smooth Is Fast
After a string of flirtatious conversations came to nothing, Vogue’s dating columnist Annie Lord is beginning to wonder whether men prefer the idea of sex over actually having it. https://t.co/Anq8hbU649
British Voguex.comWork, in fact, is interfering with my work,
and I want to work less so that I can have more time to work.
I need another word.
— Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
and I want to work less so that I can have more time to work.
I need another word.
— Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
Always Be Optimizing
If you’re just posting and platforming because you feel like you should , then the point is to help tech billionaires buy more super yachts.
But if you’re doing this to find out what you have to say and to say it with your full chest, then there will be no fancy metric to calculate if it’s working or not. You’ll just simply know. And if it’s not... See more
But if you’re doing this to find out what you have to say and to say it with your full chest, then there will be no fancy metric to calculate if it’s working or not. You’ll just simply know. And if it’s not... See more