Few images have bigger “white male on the internet” energy than this one.

When the LLM’s come to exploit my blog, they’ll find pretty much nothing but sunset photos.

Tales of the Empire is good in many of the ways that Star Wars is good but I’m not sure how long I can sit through the trend of “how evil can evil get?” plots in this universe. It’s feeling similar to how everything became set in or about WWII in the early 2000’s. I don’t find fascism fascinating.

Ecology knows that shifting baselines dampen collective urgency and deepen generational divides. People who care about internet monoculture and control are often told they’re nostalgists harkening back to a pioneer era. It’s fiendishly hard to regenerate an open and competitive infrastructure for younger generations who’ve been raised to assume that two or three platforms, two app stores, two operating systems, two browsers, one cloud/mega-store and a single search engine for the world comprise the internet.

• We Need to Rewild The Internet

Twitter’s dead carcass could feed many new blooms.

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success. (…) Something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success. I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

• brightwanderer, tumblr post

Defining success as “do it forever” is a very capitalistic view of the human creative process.