Posts by Daojoan@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AztXmjLgl2cff9k7m4 by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2025-11-04T06:03:02Z
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If we're in a simulation, the developers definitely pushed to prod on a Friday and haven't checked the logs since 2016.
(DIR) Post #AzvQ4nZBP9Fsdg4yIK by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2025-11-05T03:07:02Z
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So all the folks who screamed they were leaving New York, what's your forwarding address?
(DIR) Post #AzwNIOOlfb2BvoxSm8 by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2025-11-05T11:05:12Z
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Today on The Internet is Stupid: people are convinced my screenshots are fake because the date says November 5 when it's November 4 in America. Reader: it is November 5 in Australia. May I introduce you to the concept of timezones
(DIR) Post #B06tvyNBLi16f7JHfM by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2025-11-08T04:18:02Z
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There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is. The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
(DIR) Post #B09XRhRY75Nvx2ON3g by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2025-11-11T22:58:56Z
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At 13, I joined a Wolfenstein 3d modding forum. 22 years later, my posts are still there - and still searchable.The discussion I had in Discord 2 years ago? Not so much. We chose this. We can choose better. https://blog.discourse.org/2025/11/the-death-of-community-memory/
(DIR) Post #B0SoVpmarkL36yBnge by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2025-11-20T20:58:07Z
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The people preaching 'move fast and break things' are the same folks whose entire economic livelihood depends on the system moving very, very slowly and protecting their accumulated equity and I just think that’s beautiful (stupid)
(DIR) Post #B0Z5lWtwzFAbRhL0L2 by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2025-11-24T05:07:26Z
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When the code bot says "I see the issue now" I cannot emphasise enough how much it has not and will not see the issue now or at any point in the future, in any future, in any universe, across all space and time
(DIR) Post #B0aEpTlvenzddzVIhM by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2025-11-24T19:09:16Z
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The QWERTY keyboard was designed to reduce mechanical jamming in early typewriters.We kept it for computers. Which don't jam.How many of our systems are just preserved solutions to problems that no longer exist? And how would we even know?
(DIR) Post #B0fU7AgpoSw0mEoasC by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2025-11-27T10:16:26Z
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"I'm depressed"Your options:Therapist: $200/sessionPhilosopher: Free, but you have to read Religion: Free, but there are rulesInternet: Free, but now everything is 100x worse
(DIR) Post #B0nEV1SBlD1z4yzkkC by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2025-11-23T22:57:41Z
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Everyone talks about "hustle culture" vs "quiet quitting" but nobody mentions the third option which is what like 80% of knowledge workers actually do: appearing frantically busy while accomplishing approximately one good hour of work per day, spread across 47 browser tabs and 6 Slack channels
(DIR) Post #B0uSWh9ywR4qBRtFsO by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2025-12-04T06:28:41Z
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Your 'network' is a list of people who want something from you. Your 'community' is a list of people who will help you move a couch. Optimize for couch-movers.
(DIR) Post #B0uuqBDoC6xfdYl9cW by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2025-12-04T21:05:31Z
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Modernity is a conspiracy to replace 'thick' desires (community, craft, transcendence) with 'thin' desires (likes, sugar, dopamine). Revolt by doing something slow. Bake bread. Write a letter. Code a tool for just one person.
(DIR) Post #B1BYUKGsyM2W1qgwYC by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2025-12-12T21:52:38Z
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The Culture War is a toxoplasma. It bypasses your rational defenses by hacking your tribal loyalty circuits. If you find yourself genuinely furious about a minor controversy involving a sub-group you didn't know existed last week, you aren't "informed." You are being optimized for engagement.
(DIR) Post #B1O7NTiXHZrrafc8cC by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2025-12-18T23:17:19Z
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There are now 4.5 million podcasts in existence, but only 10% are actually active.We have infinite lanes of audio content, and we’ve filled them with the traffic of our own voices.Podcasting doesn't need more "two guys in a room" shows. It needs a good asteroid.https://www.joanwestenberg.com/podcasting-could-use-a-good-asteroid/
(DIR) Post #B1TBGdaPpVyYFMMd8a by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2025-12-20T04:19:02Z
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Grounded intellectual work, when it happens, if it ever happens again, is uncomfortable. It tells you things you don't want to hear, makes arguments that threaten positions you hold, points out problems you'd rather not see. The public intellectuals of the past, at their best, did this. Our current crop // slop does the opposite. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/comfort-food-for-the-thinking-class-the-great-intellectual-stagnation/
(DIR) Post #B1gf13nk7Q28b6Z65A by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2025-12-27T22:00:16Z
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Everyone wants to “live authentically” but nobody wants to admit that authentic human behavior includes status games, tribalism, and caring what strangers think of you. We’re not trapped in society, we are society. The call is coming from inside the house.
(DIR) Post #B1r7biaGhv9Zny87Ps by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2026-01-01T22:58:51Z
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I keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement.It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/
(DIR) Post #B1ydcpvFSxQNUgEvWi by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2026-01-05T11:46:36Z
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I have no interest in surviving the apocalypse. All that leather looks frightfully uncomfortable. Just tell me when and where the big one’s hitting so I can have a last martini like the civilized sonofabitch I am.
(DIR) Post #B21ZHHzpGkf8u32xEG by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2026-01-06T23:57:59Z
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All we have are Mussolini cosplayers who can’t make the trains run on time, Rockefeller LARPers who can’t build a refinery, and Nikola Tesla tribute acts who’ve never shipped hardware. History will remember this as the age of the cover band. We are ruled by guys who watched a YouTube documentary about Napoleon and said “I could do that” but meant the hat.
(DIR) Post #B2FgGxBa3rQeFjlqym by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2026-01-13T12:30:53Z
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Everyone’s looking for the perfect app to keep their kids safe online. The answer is a desktop computer in the living room and we need to bring this shit back.