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I hate it when you say, “This isn’t a hot take, but …”
I love languages. I love words.
Apr 25, 2025
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I’m kind of over complaining about AI, but this essay was great. Love the explanation on the origins of hyperlinks.
Jan 23, 2025
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(Yes, it's finally time. After 10+ years of on-and-off use, I finally left for good a few weeks ago and am here to evangelize. We need you thinking healthily. Besides, this website exists now!) ...
I get it, it used to be fun. I was there for over ten years until recently. We used to get a dish of the hottest Conversation from the most in-the-know and influential writers, thinkers, and critics. But I’m telling you that El•n has won – X.com is markedly different from Twitter; that place is gone forever and this new Thing is changing you along with it and you need to GTFO of there right now.
The default tone of “discourse” on X.com has necrotized into a haughty, patronizing, and unbearable mode of unilateral Quote Tweets delivered via the For You feed – they really should just call it your trough. You inject this slop straight into your bloodstream (because it's what you've always done); it then metastasizes and destroys your very concept of what it means to engage critically with the world.
You think you know more because you're seeing more words about more things from more people that write more words about more things but really you're just getting angrier, you're just getting more used to pithy dunks and reductionism, you're just scrolling more, you're getting pumped up full of hot air and floating away from anything of real-world consequence ... rhetoric may be dead but your critical heart doesn't have to die with it.
Please leave the site. It’s no longer worth your time and you will be shocked how much more clearly you will think about the same things. After all, you care about them, don’t you? It’s not like you’ll stop thinking about them.
Jan 28, 2024
important discourse about internet slang and the physicality that will save us. so much more to be said on this topic but i think apps like these help us reorient the act of engaging in the zeitgeist without attempting to subordinate real life, real taste, real touch. things only bodies can experience and machines can never learn
Sep 10, 2024
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