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This time, believe the hype.

Nobody cares about your blog, but you should keep writing!

Or: why you should be a lizard

vignettes of many worlds

Paul Dochney posted his way into the halls of internet lore. After 15 years of anonymity, can he emerge without compromising his act?

The greatest website on the interwebz!

Hasbro just released the official My Little Pony MMO, with an A.I. Princess Celestia to run it.

“Will Vicktoreya Keyneslee Beauxpensees please come see the principal right now?” said the voice over the intercom. The voice didn’t actually tell me where to go, but I met the principal at his office anyway, because I knew that was the Schelling point for where we could find each other. I pushed my luxuriant raven hair behind my ear demurely and used my delicate, doll-like hand to knock on the door.

In Douglas Rushkoff’s latest book: “Survival of the Richest," we hear how the tech elite are planning to escape the destruction they had a hand in creating.

30 Maps to Rethink the World

We use stories to make sense of the world. What that means is that when events occur that don’t fit neatly into a narrative, we can’t make sense of them. As a consequence, these sorts o…

This week we’re going to take a look at the process by which the Romans raised legions in the Middle Republic (c. 290-100 BC, think the age of Pyrrhus, Hannibal and the various well-known Sci…

This is a theory that’s previously been stated in log/39-normie-hypothesis.gmi, but I think it’s worth expanding on as it’s become very relevant with the recent Reddit shit-show actualizing just how bad that website has gotten along with social media in general. I think the model demonstrate how the ’enshittification’ process is an inevitability with any social media that is run on a venture capital model. An online community can be like a village, where you have familiar faces, collective experiences, shared values and so forth.

We were approached recently by a Proser on the back of our launch of the Letters From Prison Portal, looking to share a very interesting…

I recently heard a phrase I love: Mental liquidity.

Editor’s note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a two-part article. All across Japan, one sight remains ubiquitous – the convenience store. A far, far cry from their American cousins, convenience stores in Japan are without exception, spotless, well-stocked, open 24x7,

On June 8, 2023 Invidious received an e-mail from Google/YouTube to ask the project to be stopped. Even though this e-mail is invalid from the start (since Invidious doesn’t use any part of the YouTube API and doesn’t do anything illegal), some people people asked me why I’m not stopping my work on Invidious, so here’s the explanation: The e-mail is addressed “To Whom It May Concern”, the reality is that it doesn’t “concern” me.

Thinking is split roughly into pattern matching against experience, and reasoning from first principles. Here's one argument for why you need both.

Twenty-five years before "Adventure," the godfather of interactive text was experimenting with computer text that could tease, advise, and be playful.

How many hours per day can you stare at your phone before you qualify for a 12-step program? Eight? Four? Twenty? One? Here’s the truth: Screen time doesn’t ...

Globalization is evolving, but it doesn't actually seem that, as one sometimes reads, that globalization is in reverse. For an overview of some key facts, Steven A. Altman and Caroline R. Bastian have produced the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2022, subtitled "An in-depth report on globalization." It's a just-the-facts report. Here are some takeaways: 1)

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A Magic: The Gathering YouTuber found Pinkerton agents at his front door on Saturday morning

“We value your privacy…”, the clichéd beginning of many a privacy notice. I value my own online privacy, and whenever I read that phrase as part of a website consent banner it sounds like lip service at best. Consent banners ostensibly exist to give users control over their privacy and how their data is used. […]

A way to talk about programming languages, and a plea to Think Different™