a lot of people have internalized
wealth = power = important
which can make it hard to see how deeply unserious all this is

I have been around for the collapse (or fading) of so many platforms. Most didn’t have pretensions to Global Mattering and died while everything was ‘Disrupting or Be Disrupted’ing so we didn’t really expect any of it to last.

I’m glad we got to say our earnest goodbyes earlier.

2007-2008: this seems silly
2009-2013: new friends! new career!
2014-2015: an important way to connect
2016: uh
2017-2020: I don’t think I like it here
2021: I used to go there
2022: there’s a lot of great memories under that smouldering debris

This has been—by far—the most fun I’ve had on Twitter in years.

Uh Joey Comeau Public Emily twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status…

In 2001 the NYT devoted a lot of ink to the question of whether waterboarding was torture. On one side was international law and their own journalist practice going back decades. On the other was Republican politicians.

They’re not very smart, is what I am saying.

This website is free.*

people dropping their insta handles is 2022’s “have a great summer KIT <3” i am obsessed

Met a lot of well-meaning web3 people this weekend and I’m trying to wrap my head around a threat/world model where the institutions failed but the internet still works.

Last time I got on a plane was February 2020 to Washington. Flying there again today. Seems worth marking.

This episode of RIP Corp is really good. ripcorp.biz/episodes/why-d…

Happy Spooky Season. Dracula was a horror story about shipping, disrupted timetables, and giving people brain fog. thefitzwilliam.com/p/turning-back…

The notion that big tech companies have de facto nuclear postures is getting louder in my head.

100% of protest actions generate meta-discourse about the tactics. It’s fun. It feels smart.

It’s noise.