One man’s resiliency is another man’s waste, one man’s inefficiency is another man’s flexibility. Pick your poison, just know what you’re picking.
an impressive number of people have tried to use the computer to get out of the basic existential situation of being human over the last fifteen or twenty years and it keeps getting wilder to watch
Toby Nangle@tobyn.bsky.social · last yr.Bezos, Zuck, et al have succeeded more wildly than they could ever have dreamed in monetary terms. But they’re still trying to win the games we set ourselves to consider our lives successful. And have judged that making epic moral compromises is the least worst route to this success.
Maybe I’m being too clever but to me (a pilot and engineer) there’s this sort of Societal Minsky Moment where we’ve had stability in certain sectors for so long we’ve become communally immune to imagining risk properly.
zatapatique@zatapatique.bsky.social · last yr.because we live in societies where nothing ever happens, there are now too many people thinking in bets (put sellers) and not enough people thinking like aviation or nuclear safety engineers
My friend and former photo classmate just published her first book! Ordered yesterday and very excited to get my copy in the mail :) https://smog-press.xyz/collections/frontpage/products/to-know-you-now-and-then
To Know You (Now and Then)
“I see, I feel, hence I notice, I observe, and I think.” - Roland Barthes To Know You, Now and Then is Linda Moses’ first monograph. Photographing in and around her childhood home in Williamsburg, Virginia between 2019 - 2022, the work confronts a desire to document the relationship between herself and her aging parent
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