Steve @ fasterandworse @awful.systems

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This came up after. I neeeed to go to a Stewart Lee show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIHY5cFXqQk

Holy shit, I used to watch the hell out of this routine. Thanks for this. It holds up tremendously well!

there is something about this that makes me more confident in the future of the federated social web. There is a core infrastructure but not a core brand.

I remember someone saying the only way to make (real) money in crypto is to run a conference, I imagine AI will be the same for some time

I don't accept that as an excuse - because if it is a "joke", then it's one that only works if they say this stuff all the time seriously.

It's the species of "it's a joke!" that's serious until someone calls them out on it, then they retreat to claiming it was just a joke.

This is essay worthy in itself. There is this thing I've been thinking a lot about lately around the conflation of the flexibility of language and a flexibility of the definition of words. Just because language evolves it doesn't necessarily mean that the meaning of words can, should, does, change with it. Every time someone says "it's obvious this was a joke" they are fucking with the definition of a joke.

I am certain the person who wrote that is an idiot

This is why I think Henry Petroski’s To Engineer Is Human should be required reading for anyone in software

Sorry, I shouldn’t respond with a link to a one hour video. But it’s Alan Kay.

Alan Kay agrees with you https://youtu.be/D43PlUr1x_E

software is eating the substance of words like "build", "engineer", and "utility" etc

Just noticed the fucken web summit is in Lisbon right after. Leave Lisbon alone!

Poor people of Lisbon have to put up with 2 weeks of the great unweathered people of Ethereum and Urbit

It’s such a disappointing feeling when you realise that, isn’t it? They have the rationalist mindset of not putting energy into something if there isn’t immediate evidence of ROI but they sell things based on promises that hard work / trust in their words will pay off at some point down the road.

My doomscroll-scanning of the comments gives me the impression they are generally pissed about the laziness of the writing more than the sentiment.

I thought he was confusing sharks with crocodiles where there is the myth that they would live forever and keep growing if their environment allowed for it

My favorite manifestos are a few robotic paragraphs long with a closing “if you aren’t convinced read the (unspecified) work of these people

it’s like the negative thoughts I have whenever I convince myself I’m not cutout to create my own business. I’m sure I’d be a self-indulgent weirdo like that.

I’d like to see this text superimposed into a Google calendar meeting request

I tend to rave a bit about how I consider commercial user experience design/research to be marketing by another name. Particularly because the practitioners like to posture a role that has them caring about people's needs, wants, and well-being. As if they are an adversarial third-party keeping capitalist interests at bay. The unrealisticness of that posture has created a divide of types of UX designers. From junior/mids who are in a state of despair because they were told they would be exercising empathy in their job to seniors who are comfortable with their role in customer acquisition/retention.