now that i’ve committed to the idea of sunk cost fallacy, it’s ironically proving very hard to discard
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@mwichary@mastodon.online’s book arrived! absolutely stunning
🖥️ @omar@social.omar.website 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*
"the computer is a feeling" is the result:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QbPa3URLo5cp07bi6U-vTFjX_4btORAlwSnSRxEapsk/edit
@tf@mastodon.cloud are in Wired today, talking about the TikTok ban and the retreat from the open web!
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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@maxfenton@mastodon.cloud i regret to inform you that this one was real
🧑⚖️ shower thought:
we have model congress competitions, but it’d prob be more educational for kids to have model administrative agency as an extracurricular
tonight: reading about the mechanics of this wonderful device for islamic geomancy, circa middle 13th century