Chad Aaron Hall

@readordieaslave

👻 Cultural Critic - Made in the USA 🇺🇸 // It's all a game and there's 80% chance I'll change my mind.

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I’d easily pay $9.99 a month for an army of robots to binge-read my entire library at 3,000x speed so they can map my curiosities and

recommend excerpts to me as I craft sentences in real-time

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Turns out, this kind of exists already, through an app called

re:collect

(you should request access). I played around with it in 2022

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and it gave me a glimp... See more

Michael Dean • Margin Matchmaker

"In with the Old" In the Heart of Greenville (TV Episode 2022) ⭐ 1.7 | Reality-TV

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This was the case of Eleonora Duse, possessed by duende, who looked for plays that had failed so she could make them triumph thanks to her own inventions…

Federico García Lorca • In Search of Duende

Cultivating thought

This reminds me of Kathy Acker stealing passages and making them her own.

The kids are joining running clubs, buying “dumb” phones, woodworking, rocking Walkmans, joining supper clubs, etc because their lives have been swallowed by digital black boxes, and in this moment of uncertainty (tension re: war, AI, climate), they crave tangibility. It’s simple

Sean X x.com

Return to Analog

thinking has two parts:

expanding. generating chaos.

collapsing. finding order.

Davey • Lightning

the two sides of the brain and bundling and unbundling

some of what we need is already here, especially on the web. Look at the resurgence of RSS feeds, email newsletters and blogs, as we discover (yet again) that relying on one app to host global conversations creates a single point of failure and control

Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet

humane technology

Humans are much better at choosing between a few options than conjuring an answer from scratch. We’re also much better at incrementally approaching the right answer by pointing towards the right direction than nailing the right search term from the beginning. When it’s possible to take a “type in a query” kind of interface and make it more incremen

thesephist.com • Navigate, don't search

humane technology

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Illustrated Edition

Douglas Adams • 1 highlight

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