AI is bringing back some old school sysadmin ways of knowing

Metadata shouldn’t have authority over flow

As someone who went to art school into the 2000s I can’t believe semiotics went from something playful and indulgent to how everything works

In human-in-the-loop, the loop is the intelligence

Meaning is dead, which is to say it has turned from object based into something unmoored and relational. NFTs gestured toward this shift early and then immediately betrayed it.

Wilson Hall at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois /r/brutalism