Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

"The history of technology, even exceptionally powerful general-purpose technology, tells us that as long as you are trying to fit capital into labor-shaped holes you will find yourself confronted by endless frictions: just as with electricity, the productivity inherent in any technology is unleashed only when you figure out how to organize work around it, rather than slotting it into what already exists." https://davidoks.blog/p/why-the-atm-didnt-kill-bank-teller

All music has already been done and is also new and that is why music is the best

I'm late to the party but look what the losers did https://www.theverge.com/news/709209/news-media-alliance-12ft-io-takedown-paywall

It's kind of wild that we used to store important information on a magnetic strip that we just kept in a pocket

the peak of being a cool internet minor-celebrity is being able to do mailbag episodes or whatever with physical mail

Here's your reminder that the wiki existed 6 years before Wikipedia came into being

Got time to click some links? https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/211/

“Bah, these oranges aren’t orange enough!” Maybe we shouldn't've named the fruit after the colour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_Red_2

Or was it the other way around?

The fact North American English-speakers forget that "good morning" and the rest can be closing messages just as much as "good night" makes me sad.

90% of my "computer skills" are built on the need to click things and see what happens

Cut flowers are an interesting gift. Not cheap plus fleeting makes for a relatively high required perceived worth considering the value they provide. What other gifts are like this?

My love language is "responds when I share things I found"

This is the greatest thing on the internet today

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DWKbeM4D5iB/

Some lovely solo instrumental acoustic guitar for you https://open.spotify.com/album/1RGbUJWuk1qMYVO31fGSKO?si=NO395XkYQAq9YTmNrMAgXg

I don't envy the kids trying to find job shadow opportunities in the WFH era. Or maybe they don't even do that any more?

This is my favourite comical map ever, and that was a hard decision to make https://xkcd.com/1799/

I don't understand why anyone outside of hereditary monarchists care about virginity anymore

Piracy doesn't steal from artists or creators. It steals from ships on the high seas. Broadening the definition harms those who do real work.

Copyright is such a mess. I hope we all can agree with that.

https://copyrightlately.com/mondrian-public-domain-controversy/

/via @progo