why is everyone acting like “waking up before noon” is some kind of “accomplishment”? my life’s purpose is to lay dormant for 18 hours then rise at dusk to become a menace to local infrastructure. sorry if that’s “inconvenient” for you
Joan Westenberg
joanwestenberg@nos.social
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“Foul-mouthed leftist” 🍕 I write about tech + politics + humans.
for what it’s worth the Dangerverse is better than the MCU and the DCU combined
the Venn diagram of people who yell at writers for having paywalls and people who pay a steadily increasing monthly fee to Spotify + Netflix is a circle
SEC investigation? bullish. prison time? bullish. cellmate named brick who wants my private keys? extremely bullish
The answer to the question “how dumb do the republicans think we are” is “about as dumb as they think their own supporters are”
incredible that after 70 years on gods green earth, trump’s only real skill is yelling into the void and hoping someone hands him a cheeseburger
no simulation would be this dumb
“why did you block me” because i took a single glance at your bio. case closed. court adjourned
(aggressively photosynthesizes)
developing a new blockchain that runs entirely on the power of positive thinking and marginally illegal securities fraud
your ‘true self’ is whoever you are at 3 AM when you’re reading the wikipedia page for the denver airport conspiracy while eating shredded cheese out of the bag. there is no escape
shout out to the distinguished scholars commenting"AND YET YOU POSTED ON THREADS" on my essay about digital autonomy. yes i did. im also stealing your wife and downloading your car fucker
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(at mcdonalds drive thru) the ice cream machine… show it to me. i know you’re hiding it. i can smell its power
The Index is going to look a bit different now!
I’ve finished a rebrand to bring it closer to my indie blog Westenberg, as like…a Westenberg product I guess. The Index will always be free, but it’s funded by my work through Westenberg, so this just makes sense.
I’ve been saying for months,
if you alter your choice of words and the way you speak / write because you’re concerned about sounding like chatGPT, or if you police others’ words in the same way, you’re letting a large language model reshape language itself. And I’m not entirely convinced any of us have thought that through.
absolutely losing my shit at the concept of my wife having independent thoughts. what’s next. she develops object permanence? starts perceiving linear time? NOT in MY marriage
data nerds and pollsters deciding which voters to give a shit about
corporate greed is a pay-to-win strategy in a co-op game