these are all connected reasons why i was a day one blocker of threads.net. it's not worth "meeting people where they are" if they're in a place created and controlled entirely by irredeemably repellent people with terrible judgement.

his current position of power within the industry aside, something about this coming from the creator of ZZT feels uniquely awful.

ominous entry in the UEFN documentation

i've always wondered if Susan Kare's original Mac "alert" icon was in any way inspired by Oskar Schlemmer's emblem for the Bauhaus 100 years ago, which of course the band Bauhaus used more recently, around the time the Mac icon would've been made.

i would argue that spending over $50 billion on something with so little to show for it is one of the biggest cognitive disadvantages any human has ever had but sure mark everyone is going to be sad if they don't buy your dipshit spy glasses and publicly identify themselves as believing in your historically unpopular vision of the future

much love and respect to the care that goes into images like this