Nowadays, even doing evil is not fun anymore. Previously you used to be able to revel in the ordering the carpet bombings. Now even that is automated by some algorithms
Rethinking Karim Rashid’s quote from “Objectified”: “Basically 30-some-odd years later, it dawned on me of why the world, that utopic spirit—where everything was gonna be contemporary, ‘we weren’t gonna live in this postmodern condition of revivalism constantly and of derivations &c.—disappeared, and it was because we realized there’s nowhere to go but here. It was like, almost, ‘we landed on a dead rock.’”
Think we’re actually struggling to undo the damage from this realization now
A lot of tech company branding recently is like, “we take ourselves very seriously” with all the A24 Lomo handheld stuff… I think might be because software itself is also taking itself very seriously with the consumerisation of enterprise SaaS
Trying out Apple Intelligence and it starts sending me new email summaries _after_ the actual email has been arrived and opened. Like, what’s the point…