Notices by Dan Hon (danhon@dan.mastohon.com)

I love having the world's information organized

"The sky above the port was the color of a television, tuned to the tv manufacturer's programmatic ad screensaver platform."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/lg-tvs-continue-down-advertising-rabbit-hole-with-new-screensaver-ads/

Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions

Science fiction is all about a Great Forgetting age where records are lost etc and sometimes it's natural disaster and sometimes it's revolutionary action but in our world it's apparently for tax write-offs

@foone I am genuinely vibrating with excitement about the concept of a European Strategic Cable Reserve or a Cable Mountain or or or

Just realized the mirrorless revolution in full-frame digital photography brought about an unprecedented step-change in the quality of vampire photographs.

I have an old Apple keyboard, so the key to the right of F12 is Eject, and I really think it's time for Eject to be reassigned to something useful in this age of Holy Shit What Did The Internet Metastasize Into.

A non-exclusive list of Stuff The Eject Key Could Do Now:

* close any open social network tabs/windows/applications
* turn off all notifications
* bring up a list of everything I can unsubscribe from
* etc

OH: you designers were so busy asking “how might we?” that you didn't stop to ask “what gives us the right?”

@Meyerweb there's another factor here in the well-funded startups and tech companies increasingly running their own conferences, which also satisfies some of the networking need.

@marypcbuk @anildash @Meyerweb every so often I see some conferences - I feel like it's mainly scientific/academic ones - where attendees post grateful pictures of public health policy. My gut feel is that in tech is that the content seekers with public health safety issues (I'd count me) have just given up.

Software isn't eating the world, money is.

Money's just using software to eat more and eat faster.