collapse of the old society

• Oregon Trail didn’t ask you for your cookie preferences
• VisiCalc didn’t require an always on internet connection
• WordStar didn’t auto-update and restart in the middle of an essay
• Applesoft BASIC didn’t require a fully provisioned S3 instance
• Impulse Tracker didn’t try to feed your composition to an LLM

Conservatives have been doing this since at least the 80s.

I have zero nostalgia. Good memories, yes. But I am hopeful that we could, if enough of us agree, build something better than has ever been before.

I can enjoy generational pandering like Ready Player One and I still want to get a TRS-80 Model III (it outsold the Apple II!) and connect a pi zero to the serial port to connect to a self-hosted LLM trained to respond like MuThUr 6000 from Alien.

But no way in hell do I want to go back to that era.

So, we're doing what every generation before us has done, cool. At least we're consistent!

The fact that we're just going in circles if I have no idea is his proof that the old way of life is I'm coming to an end. We're still in the waiting. Between the old world and the new

It's saudade but artificial

Fauxdade

Watch « Together, » and enjoy your life while trying to hurt others; eyes forward.

Sometimes I wonder if there is a trival general explanation for this. For example, a generation that watched good media grew up and tried to make good media... and it turns out that making it is harder than consuming it, and all the old pioneers of media are long gone, leaving youtubers to recreate the craft from scratch by experimentation.