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From Gemini and the Web, mostly in English or French… These are articles, websites or capsules that present something in a nice or clever way, and that I enjoyed browsing.
Critique de la raison gorafique (2021):
https://blog.mondediplo.net/critique-de-la-raison-gorafique
[Le] gorafique, c’est le délabrement de la langue hégémonique du capitalisme néolibéral (la LCN) en situation de crise organique.
This isn't Sparta (2019), an historical presentation of the Spartan society that attempts to balance against the fantasized vision depicted in pop culture (i.e. the movie 300):
https://acoup.blog/category/collections/this-isnt-sparta/
Reading the weather:
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/hundredrabbits/weather.gmi
Web3 is going great, a fantastic aggregator for all things crypto/nft/defi:
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/web1
“Play-to-earn” and Bullshit Jobs (2021):
https://paulbutler.org/2021/play-to-earn-and-bullshit-jobs/
In spite of being presented as the future of work by some venture capitalists, the incentives just don’t make sense. Floors don’t have to be swept in the metaverse unless they’re designed to need sweeping.
“The Future Is Not Only Useless, It’s Expensive” (2021), probably the article resonating the most with how I feel about the latest blockchain squalor:
https://www.gawker.com/culture/the-future-is-useless-expensive
As the visual manifestation of cryptocurrency, NFT art combines the nuanced social awareness of computer programmers with the soulful whimsy of hedge fund managers.
The web browser I'm dreaming of (2021):
https://dustri.org/b/the-web-browser-im-dreaming-of.html
Old CSS, new CSS (2020):
https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/
24/192 music downloads and why they make no sense (2012):
https://web.archive.org/web/20161201003216/http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html