People think of The Gothic as a literary concept, architectural descriptor, style of dress, or music genre-- when in fact it is the tacit knowledge that the ghost of an unpublished poet hangs out on everyone's back to whisper in our ears all the verse no one else would listen to, all day, forever.

Here at Metro’s annual gathering re: our collective NYC digital culture repository. Illuminating to hear abt orgs that licensed some of their popular material with commercial rsch services (EBSCO) w/ the hope of making some 💰; turns out they made a pittance, and now their stuff is paywalled 🙁

There’s no quick fix to the shift in media diets and the attendant problems from eschewing sustained focus in favor of short form video slop. Helping children, students, and adults return to focused reading requires a culture oriented towards allowing people quiet contemplation and privacy.

Challenge accepted

The Ai still hasn't fixed the "give us your feedback about this niche microservice you barely knew was happening and also your dentist" problem that is navigating any interaction anywhere I have low hopes

Now I love taking things OFF that list (it's the same one) trying to find out how little I want and how little I can tell the machine about what I want. (and also finding better editions of the weird books I want from the used bookstore, the real game)

One of the things I lived doing when I was a baby internet user was to "tune" the Amazon "recommendations" and add the things it recommended that were accurate to a Neverending wishlist. Everyone could see this was nuts but I was living in a material world as a material grrrl. This was like, 2000ish

I changed music services to one less algo-juice-pulp-extracor-y (qobuzz) and just caught myself trying to figure out what I should play on the way home so it could understand my preferences more.

I think the machines won a long time ago.

AI reveals the larger problem that work to live requires a bunch of meaningless jobs in our increasingly automated society.

We could be post scarcity, but that’s not allowed by the rich, so we have to have millions of email jobs to pretend we are still in thriving capitalism.

Several years ago they served me one of the best meals I've ever had. Can't wait to return.

The upside OTD is: at least I can choose which emoji is my "great idea" emoji (fire, heart fire) in Google MEET now, praise be

Impact.

Omg same! miss your face!

as we should on all our sacred days

Replying 'nice' back to the kids baiting me with their '6-7' until we ouroboros ourselves into the nihilistic bliss of the meme semantic void

alright alright cicadas we know you're having a wild orgy but must you keep going on about it

Hello lovely bluets. The biannual #UpdatedProfileName is 'textual healing'

old school: Is it long covid or is it perimenopause (Blumhouse, 2021-24)

new school: is it heatstroke or is it perimenopause (A24, 2025)

And, to be clear, this is the implicit proposition of tools like Grammarly. Each “correction” tells the student to subordinate their attempt at navigating language to the “correct” mechanical intervention.

If I click a link to download your app from my Android device and said link takes me to the Apple app store listing for your app with a greyed out button acting as an overenthusiastic gatekeeper, I unintentionally hex your organization through sheer rage and accompanying mental melisma of profanity

Pops and I weren't talking a lot before he died earlier this year but we never really did a traditional "Father's Day" kind of thing iirc.

Regardless i feel less conflicted this year about celebrating by shopping Father's Day sales 2 buy myself every cool gadget, 🎵 instrument & power tool.

I saw the best minds of my generation check in @ Chipotle Mexican Grill

Oh I'm so sorry to hear Olivia! That's so hard. 🫂 🐾

My trigger words are Dogma and Filmstruck.

Everyone who comes over comments on my blu-ray collection, as if the technology is 100 years old and there's a better (not more convenient, better) alternative to the thinking that tech companies will always be making the best cultural archival decisions

ryobi hive!

Tired: the mythical man month
Wired: the mythical bot month

open to it!

Has someone come out with a club night/EDM festival called Technofeudalism yet

i am on vacation.

it is sunny.

these are good things.

(shhhh, creeping anxiety voice)