El Chisme

i like the idea that learning how to read, write, operate a manual transmission vehicle, or look up physical reference materials that have not been digitally archived is somehow exclusive and prevents one from learning the latest, most widely accessible and deskilled version of everything. like yeah, i know how to walk into a small town's public library and find newspaper clippings from a now-defunct newspaper that folded in the 1980s. now i'll never know how to type words into a browser.

like if you learn how to read, you won't even understand audiobooks. if you learn how to operate an old vehicle, you can't possibly operate a golf cart.

They want an illiterate servant underclass so badly

What an interesting idea. That you have just communicated. Using. The written word. To people. Who. READ.

Making a video by filming myself coming up with the script

These people are idiots. You can read faster than you can listen to spoken word. Reading isn't going anywhere.

What will stop though, hopefully, is anyone reading the value-free words of these gormless fuckers.

Kids don't know the Dewey decimal system? What?

Half the TikTok’s I have seen are text over somebodies annoying face.

hey @gork, can you make me a video of this thread with audio transcription and dancing fractals to keep my attention?

oh no I just used reading and writing, I'm so cursed by the past and path-dependency

What, you want children to grow up being able to maintain a line of thought for more than three seconds? How... rustic 😏

I'll believe it when I see them demonstrating the ability to extract specific pieces of information from an informational video in a comparable amount of time as an indexed informational text.

I love my physical books because they are immutable. It makes me happy that the text I am reading has remained unchanged for as long as the book has existed.

Who are these people? Are they doing a bit? If they're sincere, can we make them go away?