Josh Greenberg

Josh Greenberg

@jdg.bsky.social

writer and artist in residence at my house

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Kirby Dark City. Kirby Existenz. Kirby Annihilation. The possibilities are endless. The future is wide open to us in a way we could not have imagined.

this didn’t happen. but I now believe that in the future, instead of “good morning” we’ll say “good marathon”

Josh Greenberg@jdg.bsky.social

In the future, instead of saying “Hi” to each other, we’ll say “Highguard”

Making what was the extreme position into the moderate option is the moderate option. The extreme option is making the moderate position into the extreme option.

When Venezuela surged oil production to America in the 90s, the Saudis retaliated and tanked the price. Huh! From “Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power”

I believe I am the protagonist of my own life, which is why I say things like “it’s locked. I’d better find a key somewhere.“ and “updated my journal.”

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social

Describing a person as an NPC is fraught because 4channers used it and are freak solipsists that never leave their house, but I refuse to cede the metaphor of the behavior entirely. Sometimes you wake up and have an idle animation and say fine greetings to you, I do constantly.

I gained total trust in Gunn’s Superman after I read the only issue of Suicide Squad “The Weasel” appears in and understood, in a flash, the instinct that led Gunn to say “I need to put this little freak in my movie. He’s a major player.”

Oh, the Apple TV+ infinite money pipe is getting turned off right at this moment.

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social

I don’t think people realize how much money Apple makes off of milking App Store purchases. Tim Cook is probably throwing really expensive and annoyingly designed chairs around a perfectly spherical office right now.

My library app has an audiobook of Simulacra and Simulation, but it’s recorded by an anonymous AI voiceover publisher. If it wasn’t, I could tell you what that means.

You shouldn’t be looking for an echo chamber online. You should be looking for a way out of the sealed chamber you’ve woken up in. There are no visible exits. White tile. A greek letter is written on the center of each wall, including the ceiling. In the center of the room is a knife. Begin.

When someone says history is cyclical - the wheel is not stationary, but it does make contact at the same point on the tread while in motion. It might be time for me to Do the Reading.

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