whywhatsnext.com is the garden where Chris James plants thoughts for later. Society, technology, culture, ideas.*With all the pretentiousness and self-awareness that tagline and this footnote imply, respectively. ‘Is/ought’ ratio TBD.
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The word ‘available’ seems very modern until you actually look at the parts of it, and it suddenly turns archaic. What other words are like that?
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I want so bad for this to result in ranch dressing soon being available to buy here in Europe. If so, I’m calling it: FIFA Peace Prize – totally worth it: https://bsky.app/profile/goldstein.latinsky.app/post/3mpir5k3hgs2s
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PSA: Unfortunately the “Every accusation is a confession” rhetorical response does nothing to convince. To the ears of those across the aisle, it equals: “I know you are, but what am I?” – only snooty-soundier. It may, however be useful as an internal heuristic to create a theory-of-mind.
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A leghatásosabb egészségügyi reform ami történhet az kulturális: ha végre eü dolgozók úgy kezelnék az embereket mintha emberek lennénk. De gondolom egymás között is úgy bánnak egymással mintha kasztrendszer lenne. Hány évtized mire kineveljük magunkból? 2026 van már. Már nem foghatom szovjetekre.
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Kids don’t know what day of the week it is. Until one day begins an _unbroken streak_ of each day knowing what day it is. Sometimes ‘oh, it felt like Thursday’ – but to go through to the 2nd day of being wrong means your life has either fallen apart or you are doing so…
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🍿 I happened to be listening to the latest Vergecast’s: Brendan Carr is a dummy when I saw the Colbert censorship thing pop up on reddit yesterday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh7D… Nilay’s radicalization journey that started decades ago about to reach new heights, and I’m here for it. 🍿
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From Usenet groups to Blogrolls to subreddits to Bluesky custom algos to Fediverse instances – we keep on discovering the concept of ‘neighborhood communities’ – and then discovering how hard it is to keep them as such when met with the frictionless mass-posting that the internet allows. We need either limited identities per person (👎)…
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I am psychologically uncomfortable with New Year’s Resolutions
in: NotesAlso posted to:I have always been dismissive and even borderline derisive of New Year’s resolutions. The two contributing factors are 1) my disdain for ritual and 2) realism/cynicism.
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The question of 1st Am. rights to ‘express’ is a hairy one when code is speech and corporations are people (thus corpo AI is people) – The 21st century needs to see a new framework. With pieces of current patent and copyright/license law reconfigured to a new bucket of “compuright.” Quote-posting Lawrence Lessig’s Bluesky…
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I’ve done some personal projects this year, ones that only 2 years ago were impossible for me (or at least 10x harder): …
