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non-chost content is fine too. saving them in an are.na board that i can share once i have some more stuff in it. might write something eventually as well

anything about like...
tools we're addicted to not working anymore;
modern software complexity, anything about the user behavior that results;
any thoughts about ad-fueled internet;
the dwindling of public information repositories;
good content from the facebook group called "I will TREBUCHET this SOFTWARE across PALO ALTO"
the constant consolidation of things/the poison of venture capitalism or private equity/the cannibalization of useful+enriching services;
beliefs we held during web 2.0 that we now think are naive;
musings on our nostalgia for old internet;
the different trends of web-related criticism and activism within all of this;
the effects of the current era on effective design and accessibility


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in reply to @sudocurse's post:

just passed a musing of terminology https://cohost.org/kda/post/1591818-- but i'm not going to find anything older even if i remember a portion if the text, because .. well, dwindling ability to reliably search for text matches within posts.

edit: also found https://cohost.org/Baedlam/post/1613376-- in my likes but it's very brief, and it's also tagged #transhumanism so i should probably just bookmark that tag at this stage, hu.

further edit: there are some earlier posts by brown-tiny-phone focused on resisting tech, but in a self way, not a rabbling way. i think that's an important distinction here.

some recent stuff

https://cohost.org/jackapedia/post/1681867-been-thinking-about "the choice to subsidize the Internet with advertising may have been one of the most harmful human decisions of all time"

https://cohost.org/modulusshift/post/1670267-god-i-m-literally-fe "the constant sword-of-damocles-esque feeling that something you've figured out a solution to will be violently subjected to bitrot no matter how hard you try to prevent it"

on the aesthetic coherency of interfaces https://cohost.org/erysdren/post/1485673-i-think-the-unix-der

https://cohost.org/ireneista/post/1472823-you-know-we-totally - bug reports "This is hazing, not development"

https://cohost.org/artemis/post/1500650-ok-look-the-only-way "the only way decentralization works isnt individualized self-hosting its community hosting"

was twitter ever a good idea https://cohost.org/sudocurse/post/1411918-between-conway-s-law

adjacent, but a gamergate retrospective https://cohost.org/kda/post/1411425-on-the-ultimate-hist

this sort of references engagement-fueled sites making us wary of good-faith communication https://cohost.org/faa/post/1411236-i-promised-myself-i

bleeding-edge-ness
https://cohost.org/invis/post/1402195-the-other-half-of-th "if you don't stay up to date, it will be an absolute pain in the ass to catch back up"

[placeholder for this other post about bleeding edge on the web]

tech career ladders https://cohost.org/sudocurse/post/1256437-pressure-on-yourself

corporate mindfulness https://cohost.org/sudocurse/post/1401320-this-is-an-actual-tr

social implications for unified fediverse identity https://cohost.org/sudocurse/post/1388601-empty

AI in everything https://cohost.org/sudocurse/post/1382968-i-just-wish-the-peop

oh yeah and my opinions about how tech crit sucks too lmao https://cohost.org/sudocurse/post/1189189-tech-criticism-and-a

more on obsolescence https://cohost.org/NireBryce/post/1169316-controversial-opinio

theres always money in the piracy banana stand https://cohost.org/cr1901/post/1154390-i-need-to-set-up-a-s

me ranting about wanting to build better things https://cohost.org/sudocurse/post/1171002-what-do-i-want-to-bu

bluetooth and capitalist innovation https://cohost.org/sudocurse/post/1032790-empty

sigh... crypto as it pertains to this is its own deep rabbithole of social and technical nostrums
https://cohost.org/NireBryce/post/1093035-all-these-papers-lau

is nextdoor syndrome related? feels somehow close by to the subject https://cohost.org/NoelBWrites/post/1092296-true-crime-brain-is

a real estate app - this shit just makes me mad https://cohost.org/sudocurse/post/931313-gross

fear of software https://cohost.org/sudocurse/post/934677-empty

then theres this other vein of things that's very like... like techno-futurists acting like disappointed teachers/parental figures

ben bratton https://cohost.org/sudocurse/post/932017-he-also-has-work-tha

alan kay
https://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/an-interview-with-computing-pioneer-alan-kay/

its very "eat your veggies" but for a modern tech society

https://cohost.org/sudocurse/post/1854498-deceptive-design-pat