Societal DoorDash Death Spiral
our increasing reliance on phone-mediated realities, and our society’s increasing sexlessness are one and the same. We have become a culture that values protecting our own sense of safety, on maintaining our psychic armor, over the fraught but beautiful possibilities of interaction and spontaneity
Empire Sign in Trongate, Glasgow
#sketchbook #update
Max Read “Fascism is a literally suicidal ideology, one obsessed with purging the body politic to the point of total self-negation. What’s funny about Suicide Rightism is how direct it is about all this … It’s just pretty straightforwardly pro-suicide.”
Am I too stupid to vibe code? Garbage Day
Vibe coding, like every new trend coming out of Silicon Valley, turns this process — the entire act of creativity, itself — into a slot machine. One more pull on the AI and maybe it will figure it out for you. You won’t understand how any of it works, of course, or feel particularly proud of what you’ve done, but maybe you’ll have something. Just a few more dollars for some more tokens. C’mon, just pay a bit more.
bendy tree
This album is really scratching some kind of harmonic itch in my brain
Why did capitalism begin in the west? Culture: downstream from material conditions. open.substack.com/pub/grace…
Mushroom log
Need to make more lists
Glasgow evening (now about 3pm)
Sofa #sketches
A couple of pics of the mean streets of glasgow
A Morrison’s roof in Glasgow
The exceptionalism trap, all that manic insisting that AI can’t do our jobs, actually prevents us from articulating why human involvement matters beyond measurable outputs. We’re so busy defending our turf that we never explain why the turf is worth defending in the first place.
A shot from the metro escalator that just feels very Dutch to me
Amsterdam downpour Amsterdownpour
A shot from Our Lord in the Attic museum in Amsterdam — a Catholic church that was built inside a house during the Protestant ‘alteration’
back home staring at the mantelpiece
