Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.

No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.

This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.

So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.

I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?

#creativity #hobbies #art #depression #socialmedia #newyear #resolution #happynewyear #MentalHealth #Culture #enshittification #creative #design #writing #reading #books #drawing #music #gardening #nature #running #fitness

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

#Enshittification wasn't an accident. It also wasn't inevitable. This isn't the iron laws of economics at work, nor is it the great forces of history.

@pluralistic
https://archive.org/details/doctorow-39c3

Yesterday:
- I watched the great @pluralistic "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" talk at 39C3 (Link: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet);
- switched from Ubuntu to Linux Mint;
- cut my own hair, the idea was to look like Ursula K. Le Guin;
- and finished 'The Conquest of Bread' by P. Kropotkin.

Couldn't think of a better way to end and start the year

#enshittification #linuxmint #anarres #ursulakleguin #anarchism #kropotkin

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

#Enshittification wasn't an accident. It also wasn't inevitable. This isn't the iron laws of economics at work, nor is it the great forces of history.

@pluralistic
https://archive.org/details/doctorow-39c3

Yesterday:
- I watched the great @pluralistic "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" talk at 39C3 (Link: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet);
- switched from Ubuntu to Linux Mint;
- cut my own hair, the idea was to look like Ursula K. Le Guin;
- and finished 'The Conquest of Bread' by P. Kropotkin.

Couldn't think of a better way to end and start the year

#enshittification #linuxmint #anarres #ursulakleguin #anarchism #kropotkin

Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.

No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.

This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.

So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.

I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?

#creativity #hobbies #art #depression #socialmedia #newyear #resolution #happynewyear #MentalHealth #Culture #enshittification #creative #design #writing #reading #books #drawing #music #gardening #nature #running #fitness

Most people in my bubble will probably have listened to this talk by now, but for those who missed it and want to go out of 2025 on a very hopeful talk, here's @pluralistic at #39c3 :)

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

#enshittification

Most people in my bubble will probably have listened to this talk by now, but for those who missed it and want to go out of 2025 on a very hopeful talk, here's @pluralistic at #39c3 :)

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

#enshittification

Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.

No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.

This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.

So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.

I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?

#creativity #hobbies #art #depression #socialmedia #newyear #resolution #happynewyear #MentalHealth #Culture #enshittification #creative #design #writing #reading #books #drawing #music #gardening #nature #running #fitness