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so I pop open my RSS reader, see lmika.org/2024/12/05/how-i-ship.html which references my blog as the "via", via blogflock.com/list/Qj5Gq which is sweet and like wow I'm in good company there
nice cosyweb moment. thanks @lmika
...and "feeling that I’ve been falling short in what it takes" is just reality, the sine wave of life. Courage builds, slowly, with each wave
"one of my primary concerns has always been that we not accede to the heedless restructuring of everyday human relations on inappropriate and clumsy models derived from technical systems – and yet, that’s a precise definition of social networking as currently instantiated"
**2007**
speedbird.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/antisocial-networking/
I wonder if some people tire of being unheeded prophets.
"technically-mediated social networking at any level beyond very simple, local applications is fundamentally, and probably persistently, a bad idea. From where I stand, the only sane response is to keep our conceptions of friendship and affinity from being polluted by technical metaphors and constraints"
If you're not already following/participating in the delightful masto-based Advent(ure) by @nash ...you can catch up and start now! :)
"Denison Witmer returns with a new collection of ten vibrant and pensive folk-pop songs recorded and produced by Sufjan Stevens"
If the first 2 singles are any indication, my back half of Feb is going to be dominated by this record. Releases on Valentine's day.
There is a novel here
Substack's slowly-revealed-as-you-scroll email nag modal is both the most horrible UX designed in the last 5 years and also the best example of Conway's law. This modal thinks it is better than the immediate-takeover modals, but like the entire platform, it is worse.
The liturgical season of greed will continue with one short break to acknowledge the complex and misunderstood deity who said a lot of disconcerting things about greed. We will ignore those words entirely and recommence our season of greed the next morning with our greed orgy.
"I like my jagged edges. I like a web that’s uneven and diverse and introspective and creative. If we want to resist the consumerism that is being sold to us at every level, you can throw your experience into that mix."
