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• Post #4001332

  Who's gonna be the first to intelligently implement fake AI follow-ups in their human-written text?

• Post #4001331

  I'm *not* on a roll.

• Post #4001330

  "Marcuse's conviction that art constituted a 'Great Refusal, the protest against that which is' came to seem like outmoded Romanticism, quaintly irrelevant in the age of capitalist realism." – Mark Fisher, 2016, "Acid Communism"

• Post #4001329

  "In the abstract, technology in and of itself is not a solution to humanity’s problems, just as it is not inherently evil. In practice, however, technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate and use it. Therefore, the primary choice is not between a “yes” or “no” to technology, but rather between constructing Babel or rebuilding Jerusalem; between a power that claims to dominate the heavens and a people who work together in t...

• Post #4001328

  Today I learned that the paper card inside a cassette is called J-card: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-card

• Post #4001327

  The most unpronounceable portmanteau is back! The 2026 edition of Entreprecariat, featuring a new extensive introduction and an energizing cover, is now available for preorder. Out on June 26. Check it out on Set Margins' website: https://www.setmargins.press/books/entreprecariat/

• Post #4001326

  OUT NOW! Entreprecariat: Everyone Is an Entrepreneur. Nobody Is Safe. (2026 Hustler Edition) Entrepreneur or precarious worker? These are the terms of a cognitive dissonance that turns everyone’s life into a shaky project in perennial start-up phase. Silvio Lorusso guides us through the entreprecariat, a world where change is natural and healthy, whatever it may bring. A world populated by motivational posters, productivity tools, mobile offices and self-help techniques. A world in which a mix...

• Post #4001325

  That magic feeling when you search for the pdf of a book, and you find it inside the website of a person you actually know.

• Post #4001324

  Should We Be Worried?

• Post #4001323

  what my random wikipedia browser homepage serves me

• Post #4001322

  Can Wendell Berry's "Why I Am not Going To Buy A Computer" (1987)* be considered an early example of permacomputing? Little excerpt: > I would hate to think that my work as a writer could not be done without a direct dependence on strip-mined coal. How could I write conscientiously against the rape of nature if I were, in the act of writing, implicated in the rape? For the same reason, it matters to me that my writing is done in the daytime, without electric l...

• Post #2335680

  god bless wikipedia random page

• Post #2335679

  good non-fiction writing is a while loop of "depends"

• Post #2335677

  in the meantime manovich goes all "capitalism is best" https://www.instagram.com/p/DXRed3GGiIA/?img_index=1

• Post #2335676

  joking, I haven't "tested" it. But I gave some thought about what testing means when it comes to new AI tools (services, really): there is some sort of Pavlovian response from the user who is expected to be blown away. In this sense, the user is tested by the new tool (service, really).

• Post #2335675

  "Having your every click, tap, pause, and scroll monitored has long been part of the bargain of using Facebook and Instagram. Now it’s part of the bargain of working there, too." * Player Piano intensifies * https://www.platformer.news/meta-mci-monitoring-layoffs-knowledge-work/

• Post #2335674

  "We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible." Who wrote this?

• Post #2335673

  I feel so sorry for Angine de Poitrine, weaponized on LinkedIn to moralize about the lack of humanity of AI, turned into the collateral damage of a silly debate.

• Post #2335670

  At 87, Steward Brand wrote a book on maintanance. Here is a (pretty negative) review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/17/1135408/book-review-stewart-brand-fixing-everything-maintenance/

• Post #2335665

  what a joy to clean the music library with beets

• Post #2335664

  I had a conversation with Tim Rodenbröker about "learn to code vs code to learn" 4 years after I wrote an essay on the subject. https://trcc.timrodenbroeker.de/silvio-lorusso/

• Post #2130245

  Some time ago Anna's Archive launched a contest to create a visualization of the “ISBN space,” i.e., all books registered through this code. The results are spectacular. I recommend that you search for any book in the winning tool for an authentically Borgesian experience. Winner: https://phiresky.github.io/isbn-visualization/ List of winners: https://annas-archive.org/blog/all-isbns-winners.html #design

• Post #1899693

  Today everything is a computer, but nothing can be used *as* a computer.

• Post #1828746

  OK, let's try to make this happen (again). Enter THE POLL'S DILEMMA 2: Pareto Edition! You can: - vote - boost - reply with strategy and overview of the situation - wait 7 days to see the results

• Post #1136385

  I came to think that one of the most important – and rarest! – skills a design tutor can have is the ability to extrapolate a convincing project from the dirtiest prototype.

• Post #1136384

  I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely long novels character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.

• Post #1136383

  I have so much gratitude to people who made extremely cheesy pizzas cheese-by-cheese. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.

• Post #1136382

  A good indicator of a text I won't like is the punchy, revelatory line as a single, isolated paragraph. Something like: [long paragraph] This is us now, all of us. [long paragraph]

• Post #1136381

  one repercussion of vibe coding is that people are again designing their own personal website

• Post #1136379

  crone job 🧹