future of ~the internet~

patreon yesterday had a pop up ad for a web seminar which covered the whole page and wouldn't allow me to close it without clicking that I was interested in going (I'm not)

A private equity firm has bought the .org domain, which will likely drive up prices for nonprofits. https://t.co/IrPax3uqBK

— VICE (@VICE) November 19, 2019

"Ethos Capital," you can't make this stuff up

dangit, my personal website is a .org

fuck

serve up .ilx and we'll win the internet

minimum buy in to get a gTLD is…prohibitive for goofy hobbyists

i would love to fork out cash for an .ilx domain

plus, we could sell it to mazda later on when we go public

not Accura?

you'd think Acura. but i know a guy at mazda who would love to take away the .ilx domain, if it were available for the right price

This could, and should, happen guys

huh i always assumed .org had special rules around it like .gov

would he settle for ilxor.com

depends. would you settle for...$140? Plus a reissue of Sonic Youth's Dirty LP in near mint condition? because i would definitely, i mean HE would definitely do that.

Is buffy on blu ray yet

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/27/21402493/amazon-halo-band-health-fitness-body-scan-tone-emotion-activity-sleep

"I honestly think you ought to calm down. Take a stress pill and think things over. Tap to buy one now."

What a nightmare. I'm professionally obligated to be concerned about the emotional tone analysis, but the body fat scanner is fucked

i liked this

https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/08/make_the_internet_harder_to_use/

Fastly has fallen over, apparently, causing outages of some big site: Guardian, NYT, Pitchfork, The Onion, gov.uk etc. etc.

I've gotten accustomed to getting ready for work in the morning while having a Twitch livestream in the background. Now Twitch is down and I'm just having to click on various YouTube videos in its stead. I am so hoping this issue gets resolved by midday because there's a music stream I use at that time for background music while WFH and I'm really counting on it being there for me. :/

fast world problems

what the fuck is fastly

I imagine it as a huge *internet transmitter* like the Emley Moor mast, and it's fallen down!

Is the Guardian more cursed than it used to be?

all sites seem okay to me (in uk)

Back now I think, well that was exciting

yeah seems to have been sorted now

this wouldn't be a problem if we just agreed to have 5g chips implanted in our brains

Guardian and Reddit back for me but NY Times and Independent still down

Hooray, Twitch is back up in time for me to fix and eat breakfast! *spams a series of hype emotes*

apparently fastly is...

...AMAZON HOSTING!

Amazon style sheets were flaking out so that figoors.

whenever i click a link the anxiety kicks in - how many trackers am i going to need to reject, how many 'x's am i going to need to close. the web has just become a total shitshow.

Love the sites where you have to unclick 'legitimate interest' individually for literally hundreds of companies. Though opening a browser console and typing "jQuery('input:checked').click()" usually works, what a world.

i guess this is exactly what FB et al want, for the web to feel janky and broken so you just stay in their apps

hey instagram I HAVE ENOUGH SHORTS

https://kotaku.com/latest

New Dead Space Remake Will Be Next-Gen Only
Horizon’s Aloy Joins Genshin Impact, Is Cute As A Button
Battlefield 2042 Sandbox Mode To Include Bad Company 2 Maps
PUBG Skin Looks An Awful Lot Like Hypnospace Outlaw, Dev Objects
The Best Switch Carrying Cases
You Can Get Vintage Game Magazines Delivered To Your Doorstep
Raphael Lacoste's Art Of Assassin's Creed
Activision Blizzard Sued By California Over Widespread Harassment Of Women (<<actual news)
It's Not Every Day You Get To See New Footage From A Game Nintendo Cancelled Over 20 Years Ago
My Speedrunning Career Lasted A Bit Less Than A Week
Genshin Impact Players Insist On Reaching New Region The Hard Way
Ubisoft Shutters Troubled Tom Clancy Game A Year After Launch
Help, Netflix Made The Witcher’s Vesemir Hot
Guilty Gear Strive’s First DLC Character Is The U.S. Secretary Of Defense
FFXIV Player Won’t Stop Until He’s Eaten Nearly 140K Eggs

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i don't know why kotaku is still in my mental list of websites i should look at. some things, some topics, just shouldn't be updated every day. there isn't enough to make it a thing that has new articles every hour or so for eternity. but they have to do it, to make money and have jobs. so they publish stuff like this. was it always this bad? i don't know. polygon is essentially the same website. they even run "stories" on the same non-events, like within hours of each other. there are a lot of websites like this. daily content, despite the content being non-daily.

i want kotaku to update in an irregular way, like every 3-5 days. and on that day, it should only run interesting articles, even if there is only one. and kotaku should ICQ me and say "i updated my website! :DD" . i will hear "uh oh!" and walk over to the giant CRT and read it, then excitedly sit down to read what my friend has written this time

the model for quite a long time now, and not just kotaku, has been volume and lots of it

sigh. it's true. but has it always been this vapid? it's relentless.

first of all, why did i just instinctively visit kotaku.com to see what was new? secondly, this was what was new

You may now buy an ugly, slow, Mario-themed TAG Heuer smartwatch for $2,150

the headlines themselves have gotten to a point where they seem intended for the viewer to say "hmph!" in a way that's closest to disillusion with existence itself. but after that, the content of the story is also like that. everything has become fully saturated with it.

why can't a website just focus on the GOOD news!? people would love that! nothing but good news, imagine reading that!

(jk, i know this theory is tested in small towns across the country for the last 50+ years, and in fact, no one wants to read only good news)

https://i.imgur.com/uvi1gU4.png

"finally, in the year 2021, an op-ed by the editorial board of the Washington Post changed the course of climate change for the better. it was called "Hey, world, are you noticing? Floods! Fires! Could it be time to do something about climate change?"

oops! that was an reference to a sentence i deleted from an earlier post, where i wondered whether that same existentialist vapidity had come from, or spread to, newspaper op-ed sections. i deleted it because i thought "...eh, who cares". but then a minute later, over the post, it's right there. it's everywhere on my screen. there must be a solution for this. and the solution is probably on my screen somewhere, hold on

hmph

i wanna know more about these nearly 140k eggs

i would say the ubisoft one is an actual headline too but the rest yeah it's minor updates to games or reporting on social media discourse or whatever

Ray-Ban Stories

https://www.ray-ban.com/uk/electronics/RW4004%20UNISEX%20ray-ban%20stories%20|%20wayfarer-black/8056597489478

i like this

https://search.marginalia.nu

https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/yanis-varoufakis-on-techno-feudalism/