Brian Matzke
@briansmatzke.com
Digital humanities librarian and literary historian. I enjoy books and movies, especially science fiction. Also website design, data visualization, digital preservation, and other similarly nerdy things.
People don’t develop complete, original thoughts anymore, they just repeat nuggets of ideas—copies of copies of copies of what once were thoughts but have been evacuated of meaning. The shape of our platforms encourages this, and has for 20 years now, so we barely even notice anymore.
July 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
People don’t develop complete, original thoughts anymore, they just repeat nuggets of ideas—copies of copies of copies of what once were thoughts but have been evacuated of meaning. The shape of our platforms encourages this, and has for 20 years now, so we barely even notice anymore.
The fact that I had to edit that post, removing repeated words (which would have improved the rhythm of the sentence) and replacing “and”s with ampersands in order to squeeze the complete assertion in one skeet, is an example of part of the problem.
July 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The fact that I had to edit that post, removing repeated words (which would have improved the rhythm of the sentence) and replacing “and”s with ampersands in order to squeeze the complete assertion in one skeet, is an example of part of the problem.
Been hearing Democratic Party apologists trot out this line since the Bush administration and it gets more laughable with each passing year.
January 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Been hearing Democratic Party apologists trot out this line since the Bush administration and it gets more laughable with each passing year.