We know what happens when the open internet balkanizes into small walled gardens made by big tech companies because we’re living through the early stages of it now. They compete for your attention. They try to squeeze every single moment of human life out of you. They will actively encourage bad faith actors to weaponize the web in order to drive engagement and maximize profits. They will do this at the expense of human rights, global health, and civil society. Their engagement maximizing algorithms will contribute ethnic cleansings.
You might find Suler’s Psychology of Cyberspace interesting as well as this concept of “Profilicity” developed by Moeller and D’Ambrosio.
I love Dorohedoro, and Aikawa happens to be one of the manga’s kindest and least prone to violence characters, despite being very capable in the domain. The turned k comes from my thoughts flitting from the character’s nature to the Portuguese velar (to watch, conceal, vigil), and finally to back-released velar clicks…
I combined my dog’s names (Kona and Loki) but fucked it up the first time I ever used it as a username. It was supposed to be “Kolonaki” taking the first two letters of Kona and the first two of Loki then alternating in the second half of both. KoLoNaKi. But I accidentally entered “KolAnaki” and just ran with it.
I liked it so much, I made it my fursona’s name since before that name was just “Raccoon.”
The bottle cage and seatpost on my road bike kept coming loose during rides. I didn’t tighten hard enough because “it’s carbon bro, you gotta be careful with that torque”. We got some pretty poor times on Strava.
I use different usernames on almost everything. Usually the first and best from recent events that comes to mind.
Well. I am a wench. And quite jaded. I wanted to make something I had not really used before, back when I joined the place that shall not be named, and it sort of stuck. I also really love the color green. If it makes you feel any better I am a much happier person today than I was then. Still a wench though. 😈
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