Scott Cohen
@scohen.bsky.social
20th/21st c. lit | digital humanities | fictional futures | crosswords, pencils, books, Faraday cages, radio, &c.
Dear Politics: is there a monthly subscription for never receiving a text message donation request? Could be the move.
August 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Dear Politics: is there a monthly subscription for never receiving a text message donation request? Could be the move.
Scale. Is anyone trying to educate or improve general understanding of the (relative) scale of things?
March 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Scale. Is anyone trying to educate or improve general understanding of the (relative) scale of things?
Maybe people are having a hard time grasping, understanding, figuring scale these days.
February 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Maybe people are having a hard time grasping, understanding, figuring scale these days.
Does a platform transition reinvigorate social media subcultures?
November 15, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Does a platform transition reinvigorate social media subcultures?
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If they didn’t already exist, libraries and Wikipedia would both be illegal.
You would have to rent books.
Also paper. If you tried to keep something you had written on the rented paper, someone would take it and say “we’ll keep this for you in OneDrive.”
You would have to rent books.
Also paper. If you tried to keep something you had written on the rented paper, someone would take it and say “we’ll keep this for you in OneDrive.”
If Wikipedia didn’t exist, I don’t think it would be created in today’s internet. Don’t take it for granted.
July 23, 2024 at 1:55 AM
If they didn’t already exist, libraries and Wikipedia would both be illegal.
You would have to rent books.
Also paper. If you tried to keep something you had written on the rented paper, someone would take it and say “we’ll keep this for you in OneDrive.”
You would have to rent books.
Also paper. If you tried to keep something you had written on the rented paper, someone would take it and say “we’ll keep this for you in OneDrive.”
Reposted by Scott Cohen
Google, 1998: We're going to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Imagine the whole world's knowledge in your pocket!
Google 2024: Drink your own piss. Now eat glue.
Google 2024: Drink your own piss. Now eat glue.
May 23, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Google, 1998: We're going to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Imagine the whole world's knowledge in your pocket!
Google 2024: Drink your own piss. Now eat glue.
Google 2024: Drink your own piss. Now eat glue.
Alas, the word “delve” might be done (thanks to ChatGPT).
May 14, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Alas, the word “delve” might be done (thanks to ChatGPT).
Compromise: Let's teach regex alongside punctuation.
May 10, 2024 at 11:46 PM
Compromise: Let's teach regex alongside punctuation.
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Object-oriented ontologists be like a spot knows me
structuralists be like i know a spot but it’s at a higher level of abstraction
May 10, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Object-oriented ontologists be like a spot knows me
Wild that Apple made an ad that's perfect for day 1 of my Digital Modernity course. youtu.be/ntjkwIXWtrc
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May 9, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Wild that Apple made an ad that's perfect for day 1 of my Digital Modernity course. youtu.be/ntjkwIXWtrc