Tim Hwang
timhwang@mastodon.social
<p>co-host, "almost impossible" / author, "subprime attention crisis"</p>
Posts
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Post #1756779
Hello!
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Post #1756778
tonight: reading about the mechanics of this wonderful device for islamic geomancy, circa middle 13th century https://www.labirintoermetico.com/07Geomanzia/Smith_E_S_M_Islamic_Geomancy_and_a_Thirteenth_Century_Divinatory_Device_Another%20Look_(2003).pdf
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Post #1756777
dead
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Post #1756776
tfw when the story rights to a company are more valuable than the LTV of the business itself
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Post #1756775
you don’t miss “the open web” you miss your twenties
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Post #1756774
(from the financial times) aaaaaaaaaagh
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Post #1756773
🎻 “classically trained shitposter”
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Post #1756772
🧑⚖️ shower thought: we have model congress competitions, but it’d prob be more educational for kids to have model administrative agency as an extracurricular
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Post #1756771
that thing where technology people are optimistic enough to believe in building godlike machine intelligence in our lifetime but scoff at the idea of creating a functional government bureaucracy
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Post #1756770
@tf are in Wired today, talking about the TikTok ban and the retreat from the open web! https://www.wired.com/story/the-retreat-of-the-open-web/
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Post #1756769
🖥️ @omar and i have been talking alot about the intimate, emotional sensation associated with particular parts of the computer experience, and reclaiming this as the core of what makes a computer *a computer* &quot;the computer is a feeling&quot; is the result: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QbPa3URLo5cp07bi6U-vTFjX_4btORAlwSnSRxEapsk/edit
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Post #1756768
@mwichary’s book arrived! absolutely stunning
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Post #1756767
now that i’ve committed to the idea of sunk cost fallacy, it’s ironically proving very hard to discard