It’s time for the State of the World 2020 discussion at The Well. I read this every year, and its worth it for Bruce Sterling’s wry insights alone.
Vulnerable World
Nick Bostrom is a really interesting guy. His vulnerable world hypothesis has shown up in TED talks, and podcast interviews. And I just found his Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant via the surprise me… link on wiby.me.
Link dumplin’s
- Wiby is a search engine for personal web pages.
- Oldnet welcomes you to the old internet again.
- TT2020 is a sweet new typewriter font.
- This is The Guns and Sand Club. Its pretty much what it says on the tin.
Tumblr love
This epic tumblr post imagines the Antichrist from Good Omens growing up to be the John Mulaney of his universe. I get it. It’s SUPER inside-baseball. It depends on the reader’s familiarity with Good Omens, and John Mulaney, but if you happen to be in that narrow demographic, it’s hilarious. I’ve said this before: If you’re not on tumblr you’re missing a lot.
Monday bread
It’s a pretty straightforward sourdough using lots of odds and ends and almost-done bags of flour with a small percentage of rye for flavor.
Happy New Year
Hello 2020. Let’s take the web back this decade. It will make the world better.
Baking Nerdery
Proofing Baskets for my artisan baking obsession from Flourside
100 Memes that Defined the Decade
Buzzfeed has a list of The 100 Memes that Defined the 2010s. The list provides insight into the sometimes inscrutable language of internet culture while doubling as a walk down memory lane.
The Slow Knife
“We’ve almost forgotten that links are powerful, and that restraining links through artificial scarcity is an absurdly coercive behavior.”
Continue readingYou should start a blog
Jay Springett talks about blogging, and why you should leave the algorithmic-platform shit show and move to the Isles of Blogging. This glorious sermon resonates strongly with my current thinking about how the digital world has devolved over the last decade. Here’s a New York Times take on the topic. Its a fucked up timeline. The early part of the decade points toward a bright future full of promise where all our problems are solved by scrappy young entrepreneurs and glittering new technologies. By the end, well, I don’t have to tell you how it ends.
You should start a blog. Seriously. I promise I’ll read it.