daniel.industries

🪨 “Hey.” 🌳 “Hey.” 🪨 “Decent morning.” 🌳 “Yep.” 🪨 “Hell of a storm last night.” 🌳 “Yep.” 🪨 “Thought I was going to get washed away there for a minute.” 🌳 “Oh yeah?”

So what we’ve been talking about–machines and algorithms are just kind of like running the whole show…That’s been referred to as the dead internet theory, the idea that there’s really not a lot of humanity on the internet, it’s all the bots and we kind of…

A few of my students were deported.

Preface Now, we all know that LinkedIn has been a bountiful Lolcow for years and years, but this recent timeline that we’re in has seen it transform into a true hellscape.

this neutralization of difference is crucial to capitalism, a flattening that allows otherwise-diverse objects to be brought into the realm of exchange value.

obligatory one month without social media on my phone substack essay (contrarian edition) (Apologies for a substack link but this one is worth it.)

…the discomfort with temporal uncertainty that manifests as false certainty about the future has, I’ve come to realize, an equivalent in the unease about ambiguity, complexity, contradiction, and opacity that manifests as the urge to stuff reality into ai…

(1,910) (2,002) The browser tab’s title on Madeleine’s 7-year-old laptop dutifully ticked up.

I meant to write something else and this is what came out.

Notes MRM.

I like my family.

I’m 38 and I Can’t Support Myself Anymore The ideal person under capitalism is tireless, independent, resilient, endlessly capable of overriding their own limits in service of output.

Inspired by Robin Rendle’s post Sinistral Hands, I made my titles left-leaning italics.