I think that the true "gamer's edge" is the ability to be able to watch a piece of media that depicts gaming culture and clock at any given moment whether it's authentic or not. the way a person moves their hands while playing a certain genre of game. the fidelity/depth of sound design relative to the graphical fidelity. the precise level of narrative irony vs the game's supposed release date / mainstream appeal.

but then if that is so then there is also a "knitter's edge", a "philatelist's edge", a "podcast fan's edge", and so on for all communities. and the most popular person among each of those worlds must be declared the edgelord

guy who calls the first person they interact with in any personal anecdote “the questgiver”

lol 'hentry'

bcj regularly posts about things that are happening in other online timelines without linking to them and I am FORCED to do that in response to their post about octobug because octobug can't embed h-entry posts yet but hopefully it will be able to soon!!!

I think Apple Music is now ranking its new tracks / new albums lists based on my existing library and/or listening history and it's... pretty good at it? I still find myself scrolling down to the bottom of a lot of lists every Friday but I could see myself starting to trust it if the accuracy level sticks

WE are only carbon now

someone should do a thing where you measure the ratio of a public figure's public sentiment to the length of their wikipedia article, over a period of time, and see how much of an outlier Matt Mullenweg must be in that calculation

via natalie, in reply to me:

I've been surprised how many people I've seen posting about how they're using RSS again. I guess even when talking about "the heyday of RSS" I was assuming that it was mostly more people joining and not using it than people stopping that caused its decline. I for one have been using RSS pretty much daily since the early 00s.

I would say I fall off of daily RSS reading and then hop back on something like 3-4 times a year and have been since Google Reader died in 2013. It didn’t help that most of the people I knew personally stopped blogging (tho I’m also LARGELY guilty of that— I have been in the 3-to-4 posts a year camp on my primary self-hosted blog) and so my RSS feeds are mostly journalism, news, some weird accumulated tumblr pages, the random people I follow but don’t know who HAVE been blogging faithfully all this time, and (as the newsletter rebirth exploded and Feedbin added support for them) all the email newsletters I’m over-subscribed to.

So I’ve been a paid user of Feedbin since something like 2015? I love it, but I also like to do a lot of things in my life and am definitely overcommitted to work and hobbies and family/housekeeping. Things fall by the wayside and as Cohost became a decent way for me to feel “aware” of what was happening online I fell back into one of my periods of less RSS reading.

As Cohost was wrapping up I subscribed to almost every feed I saw people linking to, putting them in a new folder in Feedbin for just them. When I added the feed I put their Cohost username at the end in parentheses, but last night I realized that I wanted to flip it— I put @username at the front and then put all their carefully considered blog titles in parentheses after that. That small change makes me feel a little bit closer to everyone, as silly as it sounds. (I don’t consider this blog to have a “title” per se, btw— I think topposts dot net is fine for now)

PS I’m hoping by the end of the weekend I’ll have working h-entry post embeds like Natalie does!! It’s so cool to see it working at the link at the top of the post and if you haven’t checked out her blog overall you really should!

I realized that I think brat is an album about narcissism and that your current feelings about its place in our culture will probably determine how you feel about the music