Retro vibes for the win — technology aesthetics peaked in 1985 and @beeper knows this
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Fantastic bit of insight on life and the human experience from John Green’s “Everything is Tuberculosis”: History is often imagined as a series of events, unfolding one after the other like a sequence of falling dominoes. But most human experiences are processes, not events. Divorce may be an event, but it almost always results from a lengthy process—and the same could be said for birth, or battle, or infection. Similarly, much of what some imagine as dichotomous turns out to be spectral, from neurodivergence to sexuality, and much of what appears to be the work of individuals turns out to be the work of broad collaborations. We love a narrative of the great individual whose life is shot through with major events and who turns out to be either a villain or a hero, but the world is inherently more complex than the narratives we impose upon it, just as the reality of experience is inherently more complex than the language we use to describe reality.
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Every now and then, LLMs can really pleasantly surprise me with totally random design choices! I've been testing app generation quite a bit lately, and when the agent asked me what style I wanted for this space invaders game, I just said "you pick". When I opened up this clean site with the hand-drawn aesthetic on top of graph paper totally unasked for, my jaw literally dropped. No notes.
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