@funkentechno I agree with you and hope it leads to a new age of curation. Some new kind of anti-algorithm pro-human exploration of all this new culture. The age of magazine critics and gatekeepers has passed. The loss is wide distribution of their discoveries. The gain is many voices.
@SteadmanArt It's interesting just to see what people are doing outside of the algorithm. It will take a while to gain true ubiquity. Also, probably not an effective promotional platform yet. But, already a bunch of new people have actually looked at the art I make.
Started building up my Bluesky account. Not ready to move over completely but will start posting more creative things there. Anybody else over there yet?
@molly0xFFF Really? So many writers seem to depend on Substack. Do you have an email service/plugin that distributes your Ghost instance as an email newsletter?
@jessesingal No crying, no outrage. The day after people went to work and did their laundry. No protests or online mobs. All that 2020 energy is totally gone. Real life has returned and we've got bills to pay.
I miss journalism that is fact based, reported and verified. No more analysis. No more advocacy. No more infotainment. No more talking heads in vertical videos. No more dramatic tiktoks. No more likes or reposts. No more comment sections. No more hot takes.
We tried to predict the weather by putting leeches in little bottles. When a storm was coming they would try to escape, dinging a tiny bell. The crazy part? It kind of worked. https://t.co/3U9g0y3r9h
“The feeling of the sublime is at once a feeling of displeasure, arising from the inadequacy of imagination in the aesthetic estimation of magnitude to attain to its estimation of reason, and a simultaneous awakened pleasure, arising from this very judgement of the inadequacy."