Algo Screaming

April 23, 2025, 11:13 AMApril 23, 2025, 2:48 PM Chill Tech

I miss the silence of the internet before algorithms started talking over us.

Me too. The internet probably reached its peak in around 2004-2005. You could do most things that you can now but there was nearly no algorithmic crap. No AI. Propaganda was present of course but it was also painfully obvious. There was far less censorship and less useless repetitive squawking by clueless know-nothing doofshits.

Blogging was near its zenith and that was far better than Twitter, Bluesky and other platforms.

I know that those days will never return but it’s not just nostalgia to say that the internet was a superior experience then. (The mid- to late-90s internet was also pretty great, but had severe technical limitations.)

Changing Hate

April 23, 2025, 2:05 AM Chill Annoying, Clowns

It’s nice that there is some pushback against the moronic “you just hate change” screeching that sprouted up (mostly) in the tech world as increasing enshittification of all tech products occurred and then accelerated.

Pushed at first by (mostly) paid industry shills, this absurd narrative was also embraced by self-abasing and unpaid pitiful clowns.

Yes, you stupid, stupid motherfuckers, I do in fact hate change that directly harms me. I very much do.

Short Work Of

April 23, 2025, 1:07 AMApril 23, 2025, 1:08 AM Chill Books

Seems I’m going back to my old ways. No, not of getting in constant fights and near-stabbings and such.

I mean, today I read two different books in one day. Short ones, but not YA, both fiction. Mainly this happened because I was traveling. Doubt I will plow through seven books in a single day again, though. That requires reading about twenty hours at a stretch and I just don’t have that in me anymore.