Internet on Aneesh Sathe

Jan 14, 2025

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:06:00 +0000

Font fight! #

The fonts have assembled, their ligatures sharp their curves are shiny. They all line up with perfect kerning… or do they? Your eyes and mind are their battlefield.

https://www.codingfont.com/

I got JetBrains mono btw.

Decentralization is just partial centralization #

Renée DiResta writes about the social media flux in Noema.

Decentralization places a heavy burden on individual instance administrators, mostly volunteers, who may lack the tools, time or capacity to address complex problems effectively.

Jan 13, 2025 Life, platforms, vectors

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 08:22:47 +0000

Crystal-Bison #

I don’t want to give away much of the poem but it captures the nature, ferocity, and purpose of life.

Aligning with the idea that blogs will be the last of the [good internet](http://Jan. 3, 2025) there is a broader question about platforms and their methods. Long before meta and X abandoned all pretense the internet was already under attack while we were believed this was fine.

The Universal Library in the River of Noise

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 08:06:00 +0000

Few ideas capture the collective human imagination more powerfully than the notion of a “universal library”—a singular repository of all recorded knowledge. From the grandeur of the Library of Alexandria to modern digital initiatives, this concept has persisted as both a philosophical ideal and a practical challenge. Miroslav Kruk’s 1999 paper, “The Internet and the Revival of the Myth of the Universal Library,” revitalizes this conversation by highlighting the historical roots of the universal library myth and cautioning against uncritical technological utopianism. Today, as Wikipedia and Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT emerge as potential heirs to this legacy, Kruk’s insights—and broader reflections on language, noise, and the very nature of truth—resonate more than ever.