🔗 What Are People Still Doing on X? - The Atlantic:

Others fully recognize that they’re at a Nazi bar, but this was their bar first and they don’t want to cede the territory; they’re hanging around to debate, never mind that the bar’s owner is palling around with the new customers.

I know people want to tell themselves that it was their bar and they were there first, but the problem is they it was never their bar.

🔗 The Dystopian Dream Team:

For this general category of computing devices, I think we already figured it out. Right now, with all these new products created around AI features, we’re not witnessing another leap or a new product category that will overtake the devices we have today.

What we’re seeing right now is not innovation, we’re seeing people struggle to contend with the reality that it’s over. They’re coping with the fact that the innovation phase for computing devices has finished. They’re grasping for continued relevance.

These two excellent albums arrived in the mail today and I am pretty excited about them.

One of the many things I appreciate and enjoy about ordering used CDs from Discogs is that—because it is never a next-day-shipping affair and they are coming from a whole variety of individual sellers and indie music shops—I kind of forget what I have ordered and am always pleasantly surprised when something arrives in the mailbox.

Listening to the end of Renée DiResta’s book and she is talking about how information is effectively infinite at this point but attention is a finite resource. Attention, by this logic, is at risk of being entirely consumed by a glut of information.

But what if we thought of information as the resource to be consumed by attention? How would that change our approach to all of this?

I’m sure people smarter than I have thought about this, but it seems to me that by talking about information consuming and exhausting our intention, we are relegating our attention—and therefore ourselves—to a passive role.

I avoid getting into power struggles with my kid.

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