🌱 Performing Cyber Tenderness
just a bunch of cool links i found worth saving. You can also check out 'not too far across the fence' — a space where i collect websites that feel like home. Either way, hopefully you’ll find something exciting to look into too.
🌱 Performing Cyber Tenderness
on authenticity in vulnerability in digital spaces.
🌱 solarsocial - a quiet architecture for media and light
technology isn’t evil. but it often forgets the sun.
🌱 I am a poem I am not software
A personal website sits on the blurry line between a corporate entity and a skate park. Because a personal website has everything in its future; career connections and maybe weirdo web friends out there, potential ad money to be squeezed out of it or analytics to be siphoned. These constraints and incentives push our websites to be reserved or fabulous and there’s really no right answer here since a personal website can be anything we want it to be.
🌱 Social Media Is Not Self-Expression
instead of using social media to master the social component of our own identity, we must use them to better balance the multitudes within.
🌱 Agnes Callard’s Marriage of the Minds
the philosopher, who lives with her husband and her ex-husband, searches for what one human can be to another human.
🌱 i wrote a story for a friend
"in which i liberate the ending to minecraft from microsoft… and give it to you."
🌱 queer servers and feral webs
"part of being a human is the need to build something we believe is new, and through that process we fathom the latent complexity and grace of what was already there. Feral computing asks how technology can be a vector towards animism; of learning how to locate ourselves within a big world, and in the process getting more entangled in it. I liken it to a process of wayfinding, of building the means to synthesize the many constellations and currents of life in order to understand one’s many orientations. The world always already was an internet. See you online."
🌱 people from all over the world are sending emails to Melbourne’s trees
Melbourne gave 70,000 trees email addresses so people could report on their condition. But instead people are writing love letters, existential queries and sometimes just bad puns.
🌱 no crying at the dinner table
filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her own family to craft an emotionally complex and meticulously composed portrait of intergenerational trauma, grief, and secrets in this cathartic documentary about things left unsaid.