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How can I hate capitalism so much and also have so much love for old commercials like these? Bookmarking this for fun Halloween party background noise...

I watched so much Nickelodeon as a kid, and SNICK was definitely a big part of that. Those creative promotional bumpers are ingrained deep in my over-crowded brain. A big orange couch could never mean anything else.

My job as a designer/developer is not to hype new tech, but to carefully protect my communities against it’s mis-use.

Because it feels like for all of the fighting and all of the progress, a few bullies can rile up a mob and take it all away.

Now, more than ever, I think the best thing you can do is reach out to someone who makes content that you appreciate, and let them know about it.

I don't want to become my own C.P.A, exterminator, or nurse. Just as I don't want other folks to stop wanting photographers, or musicians. Even aside from the A.I. craze, I think people are hungry for human-centered, human-created things, so I do believe the crafts and niches humans have become really skilled at will go on being valued, and I want to be part of that. 

“You do not have to wait for someone to rebuild what you lost.
You are standing in it.”

“I’d rather have a human-to-human conversation with you, not a chat with Claude by proxy.”

this made me smile

“Be weird. It’s a good form of virtue signaling. It’s all bullshit...
It’s all made up. None of it is real. None of it matters. It’s all about control. 
So fuck that. Do what you want. Be weird!”