“Life will be so different when you’re out of school in the real world.”
… 3 mins later …
“Write an essay about how cool you think it is to do graphic design for the bank.”
“Life will be so different when you’re out of school in the real world.”
… 3 mins later …
“Write an essay about how cool you think it is to do graphic design for the bank.”
Haha. Topical!
You... you shut up. 🥲
“It's tempting to say we're stepping into a new world where all forms of media cannot be trusted,”…
Yes, we are and it’s shit for the human mind to have to constantly do a double take on everything to make sure it’s actually real.
“but in fact, we're being given further proof of what was always the case: Recorded media has no intrinsic truthfulness, and we've always judged the credibility of information from the reputation of the messenger.”
Sure subjectivity, biases, and other factors skew things, that’s a thing. But I’m sorry, “Any information humanity has ever preserved in any format is worthless.”, is quite the fucking claim.
I don’t know what’s sadder the giant Safeway sandwiches going from $9.99 to $13.99 or my mortgage about to go up like 200 goddamn dollars…
Just never interact with anyone. Christ, it's not that hard people! (This comment doesn't count.)
Just admit you’ve been watching old SNL clips on YouTube, Pete.
Wholesome-ness on the internet? In this economy?!
I mean either he's just the stupidest or this is all intentional and he wanted to kill Twitter in the first place. Either way, fudge him and his weird face.
Neocities (mentioned in the article) is a pretty cool throwback site for making your own simple webpages. I used it for a coding exercise to make my own personal version of a Linktree thing.
Bear blog (link) is also simple and neat for simple un-corporate internet-ing.
“This is now worth $80 million dollars because I said so.”
Tarot card ass economy.