btw laptops are superior in every way to tablets as reading devices

zeroing in: i think it’s that even the smart, curious, joyful things now appear to be a reaction to the things happening in the dumbest timeline, like the timeline has absorbed everything that exists outside it and we now must engage exclusively with things within the dumb timeline, a black hole

the most relevant signal: by and large the sources of joy are offline things, the sources of annoyance are online

it’s not that i’m losing my capacity for joy per se but that the sources of joy are dwindling, or maybe it’s more accurate to say the sources of “not joy” are growing? either way it’s annoying, the narrowing

if musk has to watch another company assume the twitter brand, the levels of schadenfreude will reach heights the world has never seen

"A system like that does not simply respond to existing social relations; it crystallizes them and feeds them back presenting them as common sense."

i think what i’m trying to get at is reading web publications has started to feel as attention-hungry, as much a prisoner of the moment, as social media. scrolling the guardian or even new yorker homepages gives me the same feeling as scrolling ig

the print mags force me to take the long view for current events, the newsletters feel intimate in the way old blogs used to, and ofc books feel meatier than anything on the web

nyt, the verge, bloomberg, wired, the atlantic… it all feels very meh (not the writing or writers, mind you, but the topics and perspective)

the current routine of newsletters during the week, print mags on weekend mornings, and books every evening feels quite satisfying