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Watched a guy on a department store bike with a cigarette between his lips and some kind of hardware balanced on his handlebars reach the end of the sidewalk and blast through some gnarly grass section between a bridge and a six-lane road like Mathieu van der Poel at cyclocross world championships.
Respect.
daniel.industries/2023/01/15/the-artist/
I randomly returned to this piece. I like its hidden meaning, but it feels pretty hidden, so I asked ChatGPT what it was about. It swung confidently, but missed.
Then I stumbled across this from 2018:
daniel.industries/2018/11/03/existential-crisis-of-the-fediverse/
"It is my hypothesis that the fediverse (as it currently stands) is creating a technological solution for a practice that can only work outside of technology. A practice that, as soon as technology is laid across it, dissolves into the same problems of any other centralized network...
"That said, a hub-based model is certainly better than a completely centralized one, and as long as the truly autonomous groups that make up this practice of which I speak use those hubs as a temporary convenience and not as a true storefront for their ideas, those hubs are fine...
"But said groups must be autonomous and any structures they create should be temporary. How that works from a technological standpoint has a lot more in common with secret URLs distributed on slips of paper or via clues snuck into Alternative Reality Games than it does with social media marketing."
