I miss learning things that I never expected, and not feeling obfuscated. A sense of community can be hard to curate, but it's really important. /Rant

I'm no expert, but at the very least, I'm reconsidering how, as a millennial, social media has impacted my life, the way I communicate, and what the world has seemed like. I'm not the only one. But I do want to continue staying connected, with whatever means I have.

We can't avoid hyper targeting, it's just how things are headed. How things are run the way businesses do things.

There will be options we couldn't think of now, but signals that will light the way, and I feel sure that there will be multiple ways.

What, then, can we lean on in the dust of the past, to prep for our forecasted future? But also, how to get re-energized when most of the world online is fuming for various valid reasons?

Tech was something to be excited about, but now we're in a bubble flux, watching AI bloat, waiting for something to topple. It's easy to get discouraged, thinking all jobs are going away, thinking that poverty will be even harder to avoid, and everything that comes with that.

I miss that time period when more seemed possible and people made things, learned things, made do-hickies. The algorithms were possibly kinder, and Google searches were more coherent. Or maybe this is just pure nostalgia.

I remember one tech affiliated account was run by a data pro that was feeding fractals into a crocheting or knitting machine, making these killer looking scarves. I don't remember the account name, unfortunately.

Damn. I missed this for my niece's birthday dinner

AI generated?