visited a friend this summer who I haven’t seen in person in ten years or so, but stay in touch with over email (ha!), so I know where they work and so on but not much else
anyway, I remembered that someone who might in theory work relatively close to them at their job was in a social space I was in, who posted in chats I ignored and meant nothing to me but I thought to ask “oh hey, (saying something like this paragraph out loud)” do you know this person?”
[squints at my phone]
“Yes.”
while writing this, my mac had no idea how to help me spell a word that was wrong in two very normal ways to be wrong, a doubled letter and a wrong vowel. 🤭
this calls for a yes or no decision, nothing else will do. are you with us?
step right up, yes, you, out of the crowd, step right up, this elixir will celebrate and elevate your very atomic individuality, blah blah
right off the bat we’re making the world a better place instead of trying to pay the rent and participate in life. "this is nice but I could make it better.”
but what’s this? with the rise of, or emergence of, or I-just-learned-about-this of capital deploying a canceled scam with a new name? golly, they aren’t falling for it, what to do?
https://gameboat.org/the-resonant-computing-manifesto/
nice.
the entire mode of discourse of the RCM, which I probably unfairly credit and think of as “wired house style” after my exposure to it in wired magazine in the 90s, says very little to me and I distrust people who use it. It is a childishly modey-mode. "here is some rhetoric.”
Every word and phrase choice is ad copy obscuring some other thing. Passive things are presented as active and primary things. active things are presented passively as inevitabilities.