Platforms Suck When the internet first started being a thing for the general population, it was met with great excitement about how it would democratize the distribution of information, both for publishers and consumers. In general this has been true, but in the earlier days, it was more true than it is today. Back then, … Continue reading A Better Social Internet
Lots of game announcements this week. Along with the Apple iPhone Duo but who gives a fuck about that. In general we're seeing a lot of classic games getting remakes or updates. I think on the one hand this is kind of not super exciting, but on the other hand it's also a necessary part … Continue reading Game News Recap 13.9.2026
ATProto claims to provide a decentralized way of publishing content, but it fails to solve a problem that wasn't already solved by openly governed standards. It also does it in a less efficient and direct way than open protocols do. A better solution would have used open standards and solved the REAL blocker for decentralized … Continue reading ATProto is Overhyped Bunk
Over the last few days I've been diving in the surprisingly diversified world of twitter clones or twitter substitutes. So far I've tried two twitter replacements and compared them to Instagram (as a kind of control). I did this because I can kind of feel something happening in that space that seems to be kind … Continue reading Emerging Social Media
AI art is irrelevant, and I can show you why using a simple analogy.
So WWDC 2023 keynote just wrapped up, and I gotta say. Meh. Boo. Boring. They announced a new product (Apple Vision Pro, I think it's called) targeting the ruling class demographic that will allow them to enter even deeper in to their transhumanist fantasy of ruling everything. Good riddance. Maybe they'll stop picking on the … Continue reading Irrational Consumption: Apple Edition 2
This post is going to be largely a rehashing of Adam Conover's recent video on the topic, but I already held these opinions before seeing that video. If you'd rather just watch that, here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro130m-f_yk Immediately after watching that video, I saw that our dear friend Hank Green made a video about how … Continue reading AI is BORING
Looking at the Carbon document on GitHub, they list several "successor languages": Java -> Kotlin (creator / maintainer: Jetbrains, supported by Google)Objective-C -> Swift (creator / maintainer: Apple)Javascript -> Typescript (creator / maintainer: Microsoft)C++ -> Carbon (creator / maintainer: Google) What do ALL of these successor languages have in common? They have all been created … Continue reading Carbon and Other “Successor Languages”
I wanna go on a little rant about "the internet" and how far our expectations have fallen. When it first started to be a thing, the internet was a bunch of individuals connecting their machines through commonly shared protocols that made it possible for anyone to participate. We created a bunch of new ideas that … Continue reading The Internet Has Failed
Today while cruising Reddit I saw a post about Mormon missions (yes, Mormon. This is the word I was raised with and I'm not going to submit to Russel's 30 year old grief with Gordon), and I decided that I would go ahead and share my experience as I remember it. Obviously some details aren't … Continue reading My Mormon Mission Experience
Todd's Corner 