(1/34) look y’all, I got many mastodon accounts, but if you’ll follow on mastodon, follow @[email protected], a mastodon without a fifth glyph (2/34) </oulipo> anyway, this is fucking why mastodon is never going to be my main home, 3 of the 6 instances I signed up for in 2017 are now defunct, it is FAR,…

on elon musk’s success in constructing a cosmological framework originally tweeted on November 3, 2022 (1/20) I think more people need to realize that elon fanboys don’t see him as a public figure, elon fanboys see him as a christlike savior in a new martian prosperity gospel, and logic does not work against christ (2/20)…

In the first month or so of our class, we have explored a number of ways in which technology has altered our social relationships—Facebook has changed our definition of “friend”; texting has provided us with a means of nonconfrontational, delayed communication. We send e-mails now instead of writing letters; we expect instant gratification for whatever desire for information or communication that we may have. While we have had a number of interesting discussions and have begun wading into interesting concepts, at times, it feels as if there is so much more to cover than we do cover, and that our discussions tend to be highly anecdotal and do not delve into the deeper issues that underlie this topic.

We have discussed the notion of having online relationships that change to offline relationships, but we still have not discussed online relationships as a whole in much depth. …