Everyone’s looking for the perfect app to keep their kids safe online. The answer is a desktop computer in the living room and we need to bring this shit back.
JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg
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I write about tech + humans + philosophy
@Westenberg: https://joanwestenberg.com/
Amy Poehler winning the first Golden Globe for podcasting is so on brand for an industry that looked at the most democratised medium in history and said “but what if we still gave awards to famous people.”
Started mentally adding a wet fart sound after everything Elon Musk says. Highly recommend. Improves the user experience by 1000%
My biggest gripe with Apple News.
If I’ve blocked a channel, stories from that channel should be blocked.
They absolutely shouldn’t just show up in my feed.
Free speech is when you let people say controversial things.
Free speech is not when the world’s richest man builds a CSAM generator, hooks it up to the world’s largest public photo database, and gives 4chan a subscription service.
I’ve written thousands of words defending people’s right to be wrong on the internet.
I don’t need thousands of words for this. I have eight: what the fuck is wrong with these assholes.
All we have are Mussolini cosplayers who can’t make the trains run on time, Rockefeller LARPers who can’t build a refinery, and Nikola Tesla tribute acts who’ve never shipped hardware. History will remember this as the age of the cover band. We are ruled by guys who watched a YouTube documentary about Napoleon and said “I could do that” but meant the hat.
I keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement.
It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.
Westenberg.
The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to compl...
the marketplace of ideas is when 50 million people watch the same 3 guys have the same argument every week and everyone leaves more certain they were already right. economics
I will not I repeat not be participating in new years “resolutions” this year as i have already achieved Total Consciousness and have nothing left to improve. if anything the year should be resolving to be more like me
some of you have never had a guy at a party explain the trolley problem to you like he invented ethics and then say "makes you think" and it shows