“They didn’t give a shit about journalism; they just wanted prime real estate
that they could develop. And news organizations had it in the form of buildings
in the middle of town. So financiers squeezed the news orgs until there was no
money to be squeezed and then they hung them out to dry.”
posted 12/7/2022 8:28pm ∞
“For all the grandiose talk about The Light Of Consciousness and The Future Of
Humanity that has come out of Silicon Valley during its ascent, what it has
delivered has mostly been spectacularly useless, lifeless, and anti-human. In
this sense, it reflects its owners perfectly.”
David Roth ,
Everything Is Silicon Valley Now
(Defector ,
November 14, 2022 ,
via Nick Heer )
posted 11/21/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Twitter encourages a very extractive attitude from everyone it touches. The
people re-publishing my Mastodon posts on Twitter didn’t think to ask whether I
was ok with them doing that. The librarians wondering loudly about how this
‘new’ social media environment could be systematically archived didn’t ask
anyone whether they want their fediverse posts to be captured and stored by
government institutions.”
Hugh Rundle ,
Home invasion
(November 8, 2022 ,
via Andy Baio )
posted 11/16/2022 8:00pm ∞
“A website is for a visitor, using a browser, running on a computer to read,
watch, listen, or perhaps to interact. A website that embraces Brutalist Web
Design is raw in its focus on content , and prioritization of the website
visitor.”
This is how I have designed pile.org ,
though I hadn’t rigorously thought through my philosophy, and it springs as much
from my inability and unwillingness to engage with fancier design as from a
focus on readers' needs.
posted 9/26/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Twitter wanted all of the credit for the innovation and none of the credit for
the impact, when the reality was the other way around. Time after time, they
came right up to the limit of acknowledging that, always to turn away at the
last moment.”
posted 9/17/2022 8:00pm ∞