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capping off the last couple days of doomcasting by revisiting this old essay by matthew stadler. it was written in 2007, so way before the social and ai internet we know today but it is interesting to see how the concerns about the web have only been amplified since. it's very interesting to look at his mturk blog project through today's lens and how it has kind of become the template now for low cost content churning and decaying into meaninglessness (╥_╥) 

"I'm fond of endings, in life as well as art. The lack of an ending cripples the entire apparatus of meaning, suspending beauty, like in sex without a climax, or love without end. Art or love gain shape and meaning for me only when they have ended. While love's endings can be unbearable, the potency of art is that its endings can come again and again, serially, refreshed by endless new beginnings. The web forsakes this essential capacity."

capping off the last couple days of doomcasting by revisiting this old essay by matthew stadler. it was written in 2007, so way before the social and ai internet we know today but it is interesting to see how the concerns about the web have only been amplified since. it's very interesting to look at his mturk blog project through today's lens and how it has kind of become the template now for low cost content churning and decaying into meaninglessness (╥_╥) 

"I'm fond of endings, in life as well as art. The lack of an ending cripples the entire apparatus of meaning, suspending beauty, like in sex without a climax, or love without end. Art or love gain shape and meaning for me only when they have ended. While love's endings can be unbearable, the potency of art is that its endings can come again and again, serially, refreshed by endless new beginnings. The web forsakes this essential capacity."

https://matthewstadler.org

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probably one of the rare websites that's actually easier to read on a small phone screen ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the layout gave me a stroke but reading it brought me back to life

Digital Tinker. Dad. I like to collect jpegs and want to see more people enjoy digital assets. https://nf.td/semui

thx ^-^

i think we could all see or at least intuit this scenario coming but we did nothing to prevent it or at least direct it to something better ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Honestly in awe of your ability to consistently find these gems 🫡

Can’t believe it was written in 2007. So prescient.

"To write a story is to kill it" 
Pier Paolo Pasolini