"Adversarial poetry" is an amazing sentence on its own, but "Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general purpose jailbreak operator" is so beautiful.
Back in the day at a previous gig I tried and largely failed to convince anyone that sudden upswings in people sharing detailed instructions about screwing around in the guts of the product should be treated the same way sudden upswings in crash rates: a capital-I Incident that deserves near term attention and careful retrospective investigation.
What is this, if not a user expectation going so badly unmet that people are _happy_ to risk bricking their box to fix it?
Businesses create their customers, and the perfect customer for any ad-revenue-driven company is somebody impulsive, angry, frightened and just tired enough that they keep clicking the things making them impulsive, angry, frightened and tired.
Ad blockers and filters aren't just basic information security hygiene, they're also practical psychological self-defense.
"A game by the art director of Journey, inspired by 1080 Snowboarding, Shadow Of The Colossus and Werner Herzog", what in the WHAT, ok brb gotta go spend some money
If something has a lot of very bad externalities, and just the ones we know about cause major damage to important physical, social and informational ecosystems, then βlots of people want itβ justβ¦ isnβt a compelling argument.
This is that oddball 4th gen iPod touch with no rear camera.
Itβs last update was iOS 9.3.5, so itβs missing a few of that platform more recent conveniences, but itβs still one of my pieces of mobile computing ever made.
Itβs so small.
