ELPiS is a web.1 inspired zine. Issue 14 is out today, and I'm excited to be a part of it: https://elpis.ws/cgi-bin/cms/zine_apr_26
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hi! i found you through the wordy webring (which i'm also a part of) and really enjoyed looking through your writing :)
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qsky
1 week ago
I only submitted to join yesterday, so that was quick :-) thank you for the kind words!
Realised some of the dates for old posts on my RSS feed were wrong. Apologies if you're following me there and you got a bunch of duplicates popping up in your reader.
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qsky
1 week ago
fyi, breaking my rss feed is like, my *thing*. I never learn. I refuse to automate. I just stitch the thing together and hope for the best.
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hastiesthandiwork
1 week ago
let me teach you how to use my spreadsheet so you can break it yourself with greater efficiency
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Hi Quinn. I really enjoyed reading some of your writings and will surely read more. Regarding your last article, I think I prefer having fragmented memories over taking photographs of everything. Taking photos may help us memorize events as they truly were, but it can prevent us from processing them emotionally and what they meant to us.
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qsky
1 week ago
Thanks Dmans! I'm not one for taking lots of photos of everything either, unless I think it's especially interesting. I feel like I say this to everyone here, but your site looks cool. Look forward to checking out the old net stories in particular.
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sorbier
2 weeks ago
what a beautiful post, it makes me think of that maya quote about how people will remember how you make them feel. you might not recall your grandmother’s voice, but you do remember she was kind. she’d probably want you to remember that too over her voice.
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sorbier
2 weeks ago
(in a wonderful coincidence, i just read that jenny book this week!!! that sentence stood out to me too.)
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qsky
2 weeks ago
That's crazy, I literally only read it a few weeks back. Such a wonderful little book. It's probably why I've been thinking about this stuff.
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I saw sorbiers comment and looked at your page and realized who you were after a minute. Was sad to see you go before, happy you are back though :)
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sorbier
2 weeks ago
yes! i definitely remember who you were. i did wonder where your page had disappeared, so happy you’re back! (:
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wow, thanks for the follow! i had the weirdest experience of deja vu while reading your site... could i have seen your posts elsewhere? so many of them felt familiar to me. looking forward to reading more <3
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qsky
2 weeks ago
I used to write under a different pen name and domain here, so that's probably it. actually, I think we may have followed each other before? In any case, your site is awesome and congrats on the news with your project! <3
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it’s trite to cry black mirror but i only watched the first season of that show and among those episodes the only that stood out was the grieftech episode. a humanoid bot that looks identical to the deceased. all those years ago the episode made my skin crawl but also gave me a feeling of dread: it seemed such a realistic use of technology — recreating the dead — that it seemed inevitable.
grief is terrible and it’s natural that people would grasp for any way to be with who they lost again… it’s so sad. it isn’t right to prey on the grieving yet it’s inevitable — it’s so lucrative.
I haven’t watched much of Black Mirror, but I have seen that episode. And yeah, it’s the believability that made it so eerie. It never ceases to amaze me the complete lack of morality tech bros have.