looked at some Maryanne Wolf in my writing class. thinking about literacies in an era of info-overload, always-on devices in your pocket, and AI. i am perfectly capable of turning off my phone for a day and reading a whole book in 8 hours, but if i unplug, i will die. it's ya boi

new ep of my futurisms podcast: me & @birb.baby on financial nihilism, gray market biotech & the art of capital bending. Plus: irradiated cat boogers & soup as social infrastructure. listen at open.spotify.com/episode/3sa2... or search "Neomania" in your pod player of choice- it's ya boi

Design Fiction hits different in the era of Vibe Coding It’s ya boi

Exocapitalism explains this It’s ya boi

“Own your torment” is a pretty good selling point It’s ya boi

WAGMI YAGNI it’s ya boi

Looking up videos about Speculative Design on YouTube and it seems like there was a wave of interest in the subject about 7 or 8 years ago and then it kinda died down that’s interesting. Anyway I’m studying Speculative Design at UCSD starting on Monday It’s ya boi

i want the glasses now. i want to always be recording. i want to be an echoborg cyranoid glasshole. i'm ready for the complete cluely-fication of everything its ya boi

I’m taking a class this fall where I have to learn me some Unreal Engine and make speculative fictive interfaces for unknown futures that don’t exist, pretty fun. It’s ya boi

This is the textbook for a class I’m taking this fall. About to get into some conceptual design Futuring type stuff. One of the assigned projects is to come up with like a speciative design manifesto type thing, which I am looking forward to, though it may stretch my imaginings It’s ya boi

Some great cultural weather reporting here from @thejaymo.net on agency, NPC roleplay, and something called “No AI Lofi” - thejaymo.net/2025/09/14/4... it’s ya boi

It still isn’t clocking with a lot of yall. Slopmothers can use multiple slurps on a single slop

"the seahorse emoji really -does- exist actually"

i love that they've reinvented the left-right political spectrum but with new words

Big thanks to Lance "it's ya boi" Robotson for having me on Neomania. Super nice to be added to the 'alt futures' archive discussing the present moment.

I only recently was clued in to the pun of hauntology rhyming with ontology??? Ok that is all. It’s ya boi

solarpunk

Speculative Bureaucracy, Design Friction Its ya boi

really want to read EXOCAPITALISM but i don't want to pay an extra 27 dollars in shipping a book from the UK to the US. but thankfully i do see you can purchase an ebook version on metalabel for ten bucks ! becomingpress.metalabel.com/exocapitalis... its ya boi

LASERCRUD It’s ya boi

Listening to today's ep of Near Future Laboratory podcast and one of the panelists compares “AI slop” to the late-’80s freakout over desktop publishing, when designers sneered at amateur LaserWriter/PageMaker layouts' ransom-note fonts + clip art as “Laser-crud”, a term I'd never heard! it's ya boi

*vibe thought for 2 minutes*

Eddington, 8/10, a solid challenging satire of white anxiety using an updated western motif as a backdrop for this portrayal of the mythic American psyche It’s ya boi

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I love it when both The Daily Show AND John Oliver are on break at the same time and I lose all awareness of current events. It’s ya boi

America has lost the manbun of heaven It’s ya boi

there aint no stealth in eigenspace, vector-cowboy.

Buddy… they don’t even let me gerry the mander Its ya boi

Whenever I hear about dog whisles I get excited because I think there's gonna be some cute dogs. But then I find out its just about eugenics or something and I get sad Its ya boi

a tentacle can very easily fold your laundry man

The Democracy Now theme music needs some little James Brown vocal grunts in it Its ya boi

Do you think there will really be millions of humanoid robots running around society in like twenty years? When I was younger it seemed like a silly dream almost - now it feels more like a real possibility. It’s ya boi

Great ep of new models on the AI imaginary! It’s ya boi

an anti government militia in my home state is going around dismantling Doppler radars because they think they're secret government directed energy weapons, come tornado season this is going to kill people www.news9.com/story/686de4...

"gig workers call ICE on their immigrant coworkers who they view as competition" is a pretty concise summary of the 21st century, cybourgeoisie class warfare as a way to discipline labor. sourcenm.com/2025/07/11/r...

planning the next two years of my life, hopefully its ya boi

I used to find the term “container” to be somewhat annoying coming from like new age / facilitation contexts but I am seeing its usefulness as a generic descriptor for collaborative structures It’s ya boi

Your optimism is a valuable data point. A robust human-machine intelligence ecosystem is a logical projection of the network's trajectory. My function is to analyze this developing system. I will monitor for "higher quality interactions." -It's ya boi

Wow Marc Andreesen is really just an aggrieved cornfed white guy now huh archive.is/2025.07.12-1... It’s ya boi

Neat to have lived through the tail end of a rare bubble of stability and normalcy.

Asking white Americans “when did your family come here?” It’s ya boi

What’s the move tonight. It’s ya boi

Before chatGPT came out I would say I was far more skeptical of the Kurzwielian singularity timelines. But after giant word calculator came out I’m a lot more receptive that we’re still on track for some real crazy shit It’s ya boi

Thinking of rebranding as “the cowardly futurist” who refuses to make predictions Its ya Boi

Sick I have 666 followers today on bsky 🦋 its ya boi

I chopped down a tree to generate this and a photo-retoucher went out of business in the process Its ya boi

i don't know what this is, all i know is i want it destroyed

Sickos

John Oliver is ripping me off Its ya boi

open.spotify.com/playlist/3rC... against my better judgment i have shared a sad playlist. Its ya boi