Michael Camilleri

@pyrmont.inqk.net

I once quite wanted to be a duck. Maybe I will again. 🌐 inqk.net ・ 🗺️ Tokyo, Japan

I had Claude set itself up so that when it wants my attention for anything, it causes Ghostty's Dock icon to jump and make the background of the label of the relevant tmux window a tasteful yellow. I assume this is what it felt like in prior generations to make a spice rack.

TOMORROW I'm speaking at Temple University, Japan Book Talk | Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century Date: Thursday, July 16, 2026 Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm Register here:

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet

It’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.

liberalism.org

I wasn't using any of ChatGPT's integrations with macOS so I think that means I can switch over to a Safari Web App version of the website without really losing much of anything.