i guess what's so hilarious and pathetic about it in hindsight is that it was so nakedly thirsty in the way that we lampoon midlife crises: web3 was the red sportscar of a whole group of mid career techbros who were living (or could picture in the near future) a dull corporate future that they hadn't signed up for and signaled their diminished relevance. so web3 became a solution for doing something, anything, as impractical as getting milk in a cherry red dodge charger so loud it wakes everyone in a neighborhood.

when i posted this in… 2019, it struck me as indicative of how upper middle class people had rationalized their “economic anxiety,” the realization of visible, tangible achievement marred by the post-2008 reality of its precariousness compared to their parents or older siblings.

but looking now, i feels it better captures the nonsense behind crypto and web3—a whole cohort of people roughly my age who missed, by virtue of age or being in school, the spoils of both web 1.0 and 2.0, who had arrived at well paying tech jobs just a little too late for the golden equity offer, felt they had accepted the right job at the wrong startup, or just not exited as early as they had hoped and who desperately wanted, needed, to find a way to manufacture a movement they could helm, that would lead them to the kinds of prosperity they had seen as just out of reach during the years they were still struggling to establish themselves.

https://nsfmc.tumblr.com/post/184259789624/its-good-to-be-in-something-from-the-ground

total monkeys paw shit getting a max pro that’s just a mac studio bolted to a bunch of pci slots. want lots of drives or m.2 slots? sorry! want expandable ram? out of luck! i don’t love it, but i grudgingly respect the gusto

In his 1963 book *Misreadings*, Umberto Eco presented a structuralist schematic for generating Jean-Luc Godard films. I've implemented it on @glitchdotcom: https://godard-film-generator.glitch.me/

@sliminality eval / apply

@pamelafox i like that there are two people who are mortal enemies at paypal and their feud is likely responsible for this select.

@bryanjclark interesting to think of this, what you’re describing, as a spin on literally anything learned from the design of carplay

@jeremyosborn @bit101 og lost highway, great movie

reacquainting myself with the sound of Link screaming as he falls into sundry voids

@taber it’s a low glycemic index if you’re diabetic (or have gestational diabetes short term) and want a curry or something. i don’t think anyone really loves it.

excuse me but what the fuck

@trisweb absolutely not

scanning the imdb page of alan ruck's recent work yesterday i was devastated to discover a genre of intentionally?? bad trek movies. i can't tell if this is like karaoke or if it's earnest and just light on craft, but they're really disheartening.

Gil Strang is retiring, and his final lecture is on Monday:

https://grinfeld.org/strang/

His 18.06 videos are one of the Internet's great treasures. Strongest possible recommend.

@tqbf salsa macha

@mgiraldo congrats! that’s amazing, we have a monopoly in san diego which means i can buy my power from other people but i still have to pay “transmission fees” to the single vendor which are often greater than what i pay for electric. the costs are, last i checked, the highest in the county including hawaii, totally unreal.

@aphyr that transformer shouldn't have fucked with Montresor