“Veil’s website hadn’t been saved, and Pictures for Sad Children was hard to
track down in its entirety. The last, tangible vestige of the comic came from
those who had ordered a copy of the book. … They resolved to share the
collection, mailing copies to whoever hadn’t cracked its spine yet.”
posted 8/23/2022 8:00pm ∞
“I’m not sure this networked and weaponized absurdity is the product of
‘vengeful nihilism’ because I’m not sure the message is that ‘lol nothing
matters.’ To me, the message is similar to that of any protest: We matter.
And you’re going to listen to us.”
Bonus quote: “What you are looking at is an NFT from the popular artist Beeple
of a well-endowed Musk walking a version of the Doge meme (a Shiba Inu). It is
selling for a very specific six-figure sum that is a combination of the numbers
69 (hehe sex!) and 420 (blaze it!).”
Charlie Warzel ,
The Absurdity is the Point
(May 11, 2021 )
posted 7/5/2021 10:23pm ∞
“The [New York] Times in particular is a well-resourced standard-bearer for
digital journalism, with a robust institutional archiving structure. Their
interest in facing the challenge of linkrot indicates that it has yet to be
understood or comprehensively addressed across the field.”
John Bowers, Clare Stanton, and Jonathan Zittrain ,
What the ephemerality of the Web means for your hyperlinks
(Columbia Journalism Review ,
May 21, 2021 )
“The end product is an internet-native sport that doesn’t need any of the
troublesome real-life human players who are bound to disappoint us with their
bad behavior. Instead, fans create narratives for players, inventing histories
and team culture to surround and explain the random, simulation-based events of
the game.”
Jason Snell ,
The joy of fake sports
(Six Colors ,
March 11, 2021 )
posted 3/28/2021 9:32pm ∞
“These random angry people are merely asking us to keep our promises. We told
them 20-some years ago that we’d try to abolish government and bring a world of
plenty. We told them we’d make them powerful, that we’d open gates of knowledge
and opportunity.”
posted 2/19/2020 8:27pm ∞