Why do people still wish their friends Happy Birthday on Facebook, when the friend in question clearly haven’t used the site in nearly a decade?
Some traditional bothiers feel their world, the sacrosanct inner circle, is under threat in an age of Instagram posts and online blogs.
— From Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat Hill 📚
The phrase “online blogs” irritates me beyond all measure. It has no place in a book published in 2024. It’s a redundancy - how many offline blogs are there? - that is surely unnecessary decades into the existence of the form.
Started reading: Fringed With Mud and Pearls by Ian Crofton 📚
One idea that I’ve been playing around with in my head is that we’re living in what I call “a fragile now”. So many of our old assumptions about the world and its direction of travel have been overturned in the last decade.
And we may be ill-equipped to truly realise it.
Y’know, it’s getting ever clearer that Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t actually know what he’s doing – and when the Meta money machine starts to dry up, that will finally become apparent to everyone.
It’s breathtaking to me, how casually leadership speaks of employees being jailed. As if it’s a fact of life like taxes (though of course that’s something they try to avoid). Everyone starts calling this a “mitigation strategy”— even though the mitigation in this case is to find a “body” to be arrested.
— Careless People: A story of where I used to work by Sarah Wynn-Williams 📚
Friday night link-dump, so so I can finally escape my desk:
(Hmm. “Pre-digested” sounds worse in this context than I expected…)
