Chris James

The word 'available' seems very modern until you actually look at the parts of it, and it suddenly turns archaic. What other words are like that?

I want so bad for this to result in ranch dressing soon being available to buy here in Europe. If so, I'm calling it: FIFA Peace Prize - totally worth it.

Beautiful. There is smth profound and richly true about the 'shadow' world that runs parallel to the capitalism/GDP world. Shadow, not because it's less real, but that GDP metrics & 'the market' doesn't directly see it. But it's where real life happens. Capitalism was meant to serve it-it flipped.

I think the theologians call this “hydrostatic union.”

PSA: Unfortunately the "Every accusation is a confession" rhetorical response does nothing to convince. To the ears of those across the aisle, it equals: "I know you are, but what am I?" - only snooty-soundier. It may, however be useful as an internal heuristic to create a theory-of-mind.

A leghatásosabb egészségügyi reform ami történhet az kulturális: ha végre eü dolgozók úgy kezelnék az embereket mintha emberek lennénk. De gondolom egymás között is úgy bánnak egymással mintha kasztrendszer lenne. Hány évtized mire kineveljük magunkból? 2026 van már. Már nem foghatom szovjetekre.

open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...

Kids don't know what day of the week it is. Until one day begins an _unbroken streak_ of each day knowing what day it is. Sometimes 'oh, it felt like Thursday' - but to go through to the 2nd day of being wrong means your life has either fallen apart or you are doing so well, you are above society.

🍿 I happened to be listening to the latest Vergecast's: Brendan Carr is a dummy when I saw the Colbert censorship thing pop up on reddit yesterday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh7D... Nilay's radicalization journey that started decades ago about to reach new heights, and I'm here for it. 🍿

Usenet to Blogrolls to subreddits to Bluesky custom algos to Fediverse - we keep discovering 'neighborhoods' - and then discovering how hard it is to keep them small with frictionless mass-posting. We need either limited identities per person (👎) or a posting speed-limit across your identities. (👍)

For those who have ideological or psychological objections to New Year’s Resolutions or rituals in general. whywhatsnext.com/b/KH

The question of 1st Am. rights to 'express' is a hairy one when code is speech and corporations are people (thus corpo AI is people) - The 21st century needs to see a new framework. With pieces of current patent and copyright/license law reconfigured to a new bucket of "compuright."

Huh. We've been vibecoding whole societies for thousands of years. Soviets tried implementing enterprise top-down standards but couldn't manage the complexity.

At 37, late to the party, I'm finally participating in public posting. I just remembered: 18 years ago I had a blogspot for 2 months, so to help overcome self-consciousness and mortification, I'll jump into the deep end with this post from a 19-year-old me in 2007: whywhatsnext.com/2025/06/thro...

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🤣 I am SO RELIEVED that we get such a blatant and clownish example of the latent social dangers of bias-engineered LLMs. I was worried that it would first have global impact in a subtle way before the general population could recognize the threat.

Been bouncing around my head lately: Amend copyright law with #compuright law. The right to copy was mostly a stand-in for 'being able to do something with'. But digital copies are free and unlimited. Digital licensing stepped in to fill some gap. But compuright is next. Is there a 'there' there?

Just a few posts, but I feel deeply seen: blueskyroast.com/roast/chris....

Early-mid 2000s internet saw thoughtful blogs about the future of the web as open protocols (e.g. RSS, and Twitter at first). Who can I follow that is thinking/writing about the future of the open internet and post-walled-garden sharing of ideas and content?