The infrastructure we need is already being assembled. It lives in conversations, in journals, in prototypes, in pilots, in pop-ups, in retrofits, in necessity, in stubborn commitment, in wacky ideas, in people with shovels, in sea grass beds, in threads from the past.
you might make a single reply, a post that gets a single reply, that completely changes the course of someone's thinking - this is practically invisible to the industrial processes of measuring "engagement". a platform that has your data does not inherently have the Truth. and yet there are industries built around this belief.
a more specific thesis is that the most significant conversations you will have online are not necessarily the ones that get "engagement"
saw "Deletes < 10 Boosts oder < 15 Likes after a month" in someone's profile and was like, damn, love yourself more. my best shit is the stuff that doesn't do numbers.
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (Commodore 64)
the fascists' top goal right now is to go from being allowed to show their faces in the daylight at all to being considered "normal", just another notch on the socially permitted spectrum of opinion. ratcheting up their visibility and relevance until they can seize power permanently and dissolve the democratic mechanisms that allowed them to get there. that piece is profoundly irresponsible and shows just how comfortable and willing to cooperate many liberals are.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260625143533/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/06/palantir-chore-coat/687686/ personally this strikes me as only a few small steps removed from "ironically" wearing one of those monogrammed epstein jackets
much of the fediverse is "public" in the same way a conversation between friends at the beach is public. sure you can hear what we're saying as you walk by and even join in, but if you sit silently beside us with a tape recorder to transcribe everything we say for further dissemination you're still being a creep
OpenAI employee Tarun Gogineni aka "roon" just openly worshipping death and human enslavement to the god-computer he believes he's creating. your IPO just got pushed back bro! it's all falling apart! your nihilism was pointless and evil and you'll be hated for the rest of your days!
"i want the game to have 9000 levels to run around in" and "i want the game to have 9000 outfits i can dress my character up in" as non-mutually-exclusive gamer imperatives
[neo voice] garbs. lots of garbs https://breezewiki.com/finalfantasy/wiki/Lightning_Returns:_Final_Fantasy_XIII_garbs
[peter thiel, suddenly incensed] exCUse me i prefer the term "Inverse Jesus"
Maniac Mansion (Nintendo Entertainment System (Japan))
https://xcancel.com/WhiteHouse/status/2070253292383252879 gamergate-occupied government