If you go to my cool page you can find Project Xanadu.
One of the just utterly amazing things about the internet is that it has made us so able to form these little online communities and things. Tumblr! Oh my goodness! HN! While scrolling, I found the cute CasNum github project, I found the microGPT project that's linked on the AI page. Along with all of the horrible things it has brought us (see web3, centralization, etc.), it has brought us quaint community. It has brought us in closer contact with one another. And that's wonderful, despite our new dependence on it.
It is increasingly embarrassing to be online. This has been my experience for a few weeks. The use of writing on website, of digital culture, is increasingly out of touch with analogue real world. Internet can no longer augment reality because it has been so hijacked by capitalism. There are interesting groups that have interesting things to say about this. the institute of network cultures studies the culture of the internet, of the technocapitalists. the cults, though, have lost their mystique after I discovered the vast abrupt. The characterization of them, the seemingly sensible, as schizotypal really explains a lot of what I appreciate about this genre of internetdom. They link things and concepts as though they are their own net. This is what I appreciate and what I find so scary---esoteric knowledge---about the Rationalists and Zizians etc. You can, supposedly, trace VA down to the CCRU, who---apparently---are accelerationists in their own right. The existence and continued existence of the Internet should not be neglected, but Internet-nihilism is fanatical. It can't save us all, either; see the numerous theories of Network Cultures and Jane Rosenzwieg. The Rationalists are wrong about AI, even if it can be apocalyptic; they brought about such an apocalypse. The cure to which is de-digitizing. Techno-esotericism is boring. Adieu from the web.
Re: Xanadu, I think the Text fragments in URIs API is actually like. A pretty good modern solution. Although of course I'll need to read their philosophy first. I saw a comment the other day that said that, basically, web browsers haven't made actual substantial changes to their design in the past however-many-years since unifying searchbar&urlentry and like. tabs. What can I do about that? Design a browser myself? We shall seeee............. it could be fun...............................all in the browser.................hmm..................my first immediate thought is that I don't know how Chrome tells websites that it is a browser, that it is a user-agent. How do I get websites to approve my fetch? Do I need to send a different type of HTTP request? Do I need to send like a TLS or something? I know nothing about that so that'd be my place to start, I guess. I'm gonna have some time on my hands, so I might.
See my thoughts on hackers, or my thoughts on AI, or my thoughts on web3 (the final one containing more thoughts on centralization, too). See web3 also for Dead Internet Theory; it's more relevant there... can you guess why, before you go?
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