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  Hello!

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  tonight: reading about the mechanics of this wonderful device for islamic geomancy, circa middle 13th century https://www.labirintoermetico.com/07Geomanzia/Smith_E_S_M_Islamic_Geomancy_and_a_Thirteenth_Century_Divinatory_Device_Another%20Look_(2003).pdf

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  dead

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  tfw when the story rights to a company are more valuable than the LTV of the business itself

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  you don’t miss “the open web” you miss your twenties

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  (from the financial times) aaaaaaaaaagh

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  🎻 “classically trained shitposter”

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  🧑‍⚖️ shower thought: we have model congress competitions, but it’d prob be more educational for kids to have model administrative agency as an extracurricular

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  that thing where technology people are optimistic enough to believe in building godlike machine intelligence in our lifetime but scoff at the idea of creating a functional government bureaucracy

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  @tf are in Wired today, talking about the TikTok ban and the retreat from the open web! https://www.wired.com/story/the-retreat-of-the-open-web/

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  🖥️ @omar and i have been talking alot about the intimate, emotional sensation associated with particular parts of the computer experience, and reclaiming this as the core of what makes a computer *a computer* "the computer is a feeling" is the result: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QbPa3URLo5cp07bi6U-vTFjX_4btORAlwSnSRxEapsk/edit

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  @mwichary’s book arrived! absolutely stunning

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  now that i’ve committed to the idea of sunk cost fallacy, it’s ironically proving very hard to discard