Angel

Angel

@solo.ist

I think a lot about consciousness, neuroscience, AI, anarchism, economics, history, quantum physics, space travel, and other assorted nerd shit. solo.ist • angelmarino.com

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Angel
@solo.ist

Snakes are rad. That is all. #ballpython #snakes #lucille #radicaldude

Angel
@solo.ist

I’m so over the whole electoral scene at this point, but god damn if it isn’t nice to see some eloquent rhetoric that isn’t just strawmans, gotchas, and whataboutism. #THECONSTITUTIONTOMMY

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Angel
@solo.ist

I think I'm going to turn my Bluesky account into a bot that just reshares this bot's posts.

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot@leguinbot.bsky.social

Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid).

Angel
@solo.ist

Holy shit I'm tired of companies shipping shitty "features" just so they can squeeze money out of me. I can't *manually* deploy something on @vercel.com if the commit was authored by someone who doesn't have an account on the project team?

Angel
@solo.ist

Blocking random external contributions make sense for security, but I'm literally trying to manually deploy via my own account on the dashboard. Time to trade "convenience" for values and switch to something like May First. Anyone have any recommendations for values-aligned, or #coop web services?

Angel
@solo.ist

Question: How does one do social media, when one likes their ideas and doesn’t really give a shit what other people think. But also, balanced against the fact that one generally creates things for the world to consume and enjoy, and this is how people share stuff nowadays.

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Angel
@solo.ist

Eh fuck it, I should just go patronize a toy shop and light them up on Twitter so I can feel validated.

Angel
@solo.ist

Question: How does one do social media, when one likes their ideas and doesn’t really give a shit what other people think. But also, balanced against the fact that one generally creates things for the world to consume and enjoy, and this is how people share stuff nowadays.

Angel
@solo.ist

Less crass self-promotion, more “hey here’s a thing, feel free to engage, use, and give feedback.” I keep running into this baseline assumption that everyone seems to keep that any attempt to do a thing these days is just some hustle culture, get-up-and-grind bullshit.

Angel
@solo.ist

Projecting things out, it’s hard to imagine a future where #opensource software *doesn’t* distill down to a question of whose tokens are being burned, and to what end. Which then leads me to think a #coop model makes the most sense for distributing the cost and decisions around what to build.

Angel
@solo.ist

SOMETIMES I TAKE PICTURES OF THINGS. Shot on an Ilford Sprite 35-ii #analogue #photgraphy #35mm

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

This is actually hell, right?

Angel
@solo.ist

I love it when I’m underwhelmed with a book but too far in to stop and then it just ends unexpectedly because half of it is footnotes.

Angel
@solo.ist

Issue #900 on Prose! Was definitely not expecting to work on this thing as much as I did, but it's been a blast. I've got some nice features in the hopper! 1. Syncing commenting across desktop, web, and *local* HTML 2. Publish to AtProto (soon!) 3. Full web exp with an (optional) at-cost paid tier

Angel
@solo.ist

I can’t remember the last time I was this psyched for a browser version bump. It’s pretty slick!

Zen@zen-browser.app

Life sometimes happens to be out of sync. Zen isn't. Whether you are at home or on a trip, with our newest addition of improvements we have introduced a complete synchronisation of your Spaces across multiple devices. → zen-browser.app/release-note...

Angel
@solo.ist

Cue the "we need to regulate open-weight" pearl clutching. "the costs of some advanced AI tasks such as coding fell by as much as 56% while the quality of the AI’s performance fell just 2%, Austin said." archive.is/2026.08.21-0...

Angel
@solo.ist

Finally got around to this, so good! So fascinating how the actual devs on the ground at Twitter were well-intentioned and grappling with some of the fundamental dynamics of profit-driven economics. Love @blaine.bsky.social's reframe of decentralized tech to cooperation and collaboration.

revolution.social Podcast@revolution.social

Twitter could have been built very differently. @blaine.bsky.social, one of the earliest architects of Twitter, built a version inside the company that worked like Mastodon or @bsky.app today. Even their lead investor backed it. So what happened? Listen to the full story, ep out now. Link below.

Angel
@solo.ist

Sometimes, I like to think about how weird it must be, to be a pet dog. You have zero context or understanding of why things are the way they are, it’s like being abducted by aliens as a baby human and raised on some strange world that just makes no sense to your brain.

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Angel
@solo.ist

And I’m pretty sure they just think we’re weird big dogs too. Must be weird, is all. Cats, on the other hand, I suspect, don’t give a shit.

Angel
@solo.ist

Anyway this is a literal shower thought, brought to you by my dog walking in on me taking a shower and giving me this “oh shit, sorry didn’t see you there” look and amscraying outta there.

Angel
@solo.ist

Sometimes, I like to think about how weird it must be, to be a pet dog. You have zero context or understanding of why things are the way they are, it’s like being abducted by aliens as a baby human and raised on some strange world that just makes no sense to your brain.

Angel
@solo.ist

But we’re all mammals (dogs and us) so, we’ve got some stuff in common like playing and whatnot, but also you have all these dog instincts that just make no sense in the human world, and instead we’re like “here chew this fake lamb chop toy instead.”

Angel
@solo.ist

Here's something pithy: I just opened a junk drawer and the smell transported me back to playing Magic the Gathering in middle school. I think it was the crayons what did it.

Angel
@solo.ist

Can I complain about "micro-blogging" or did the world move on from that. Half the time I try to say something on here, I'm like "how do I fit this into 300 words." And it doesn't fit, and then I use the threads thing, which like, why even restrict it in the first place. Sure, maybe it's so people

Angel
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We're just going to keep living with a character limit that happened because SMS came first? But also, just hit that little plus button if there's more...

Angel
@solo.ist

"It’s a sharecropping system, but the sharecroppers are generally happy because their interest lies in self-expression or socializing, not in making money." What an astute observation of the current state of the digital world, written... 20 years ago. www.roughtype.com?p=634

roughtype.comDigital sharecroppingThis post, along with seventy-eight others, is collected in the book Utopia Is Creepy. A while back I wrote that Web 2.0, by putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withhol…
Angel
@solo.ist

Big ups to @zen-browser.app for being Gecko and not Chromium-based (and also nice to use).

Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀@thomasfuchs.at

Periodic reminder that Chrome is bad software. It's a personal data collector cosplaying as a web browser. Use other browsers, my personal recommendations are Safari (if you're on a Mac) and Vivaldi (works anywhere). Orion is worth a look too (no Windows version yet).

Angel
@solo.ist

Another banger from Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act, re: what gets in the way of creation: “Thoughts and habits not conducive to the work: Believing you’re not good enough. Feeling you don’t have the energy it takes. Mistaking adopted rules for absolute truths. Not wanting to do the work (laziness).”

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Angel
@solo.ist

“Romanticizing negative behaviors or addictions. Believing a certain mood or state is necessary to do your best work. Prioritizing other activities and responsibilities over your commitment to making art. Distractibility and procrastination. Impatience.”

Angel
@solo.ist

And last but not least: “Thinking anything that’s out of your control is in your way.” A friendly reminder that little stands between you and doing that thing you want to do.

Angel
@solo.ist

Another banger from Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act, re: what gets in the way of creation: “Thoughts and habits not conducive to the work: Believing you’re not good enough. Feeling you don’t have the energy it takes. Mistaking adopted rules for absolute truths. Not wanting to do the work (laziness).”

Angel
@solo.ist

“Not taking the work to its highest expression (settling). Having goals so ambitious that you can’t begin. Thinking you can only do your best work in certain conditions. Requiring specific tools or equipment to do the work. Abandoning a project as soon as it gets difficult.”

Angel
@solo.ist

“Feeling like you need permission to start or move forward. Letting a perceived need for funding, equipment, or support get in the way. Having too many ideas and not knowing where to start. Never finishing projects. Blaming circumstances or other people for interfering with your process.”