Grieving Supernatural in public
Meta played us all.
This week, I mourn the loss of Supernatural, the only good VR app (come at me, Beat Saber stans), and write about how Meta systematically robs the world of so much joy every time it tries to assert platform power.
open.substack.com/pub/makingus...
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I am very bad at self-promotion because I fail to convince myself that what I say matters when *gestures to all the fires* things are so bad
but
I am also trying to grow this little budgie of a newsletter where I write a short essay every week and highlight the things that are making me happy
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A hill on which I will die: Calvin and Hobbes is one of the great pieces of 20th-century American literature in no small part because it was never turned into anything aside from a comic strip. Leave it be.
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your best bloots, you mean
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A federated haiku to break in my BlueSky account
ActivityPub
Rebuilding the social web
Unless you’re Meta
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