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Jason Velazquez
What's up, weirdos. I'm Jason. Welcome to my digital garden. I'm happy you're here. Please make yourself comfortable. By day, I'm a digital freelancer, copywriter, uncle, and cheese danish sommelier. By night, I drink the blood of my enemies in an old Mountain Dew bottle I found in a Buc-ee's bathroom. Kidding. I'm just a guy who likes to blog about technology, design, the web, and anything I'm hyper fixated on at the time.
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All posts (65)
There's no King in No Kings When did we get so fucking polite? Today, I find myself reading Letter From a Birmingham Jail in the hope of finding some familiarity. The essay by Dr. Martin Luther King doesn't deal much in metaphor, unlike his speeches. Instead, I get a grounded look into the practice and purpose of...
The Computational Web and the Old AI Switcharoo For two grand I can buy a laptop with unfathomable levels of computational power. Stock, that laptop comes with silicon made of resistors so impossibly tiny, it operates under different laws of physics. For just a few hundred dollars more, I get a hard drive that...
Slop is Everywhere For Those With Eyes to See The size of your plate can influence how much food you eat. The absence of a clock on a casino wall can keep you gambling through the early morning. On social media, our For You Pages give us the illusion of infinite content. How our environments are designed influences...
Hank Green And The Fantastical Tales of God AIs AI Doomerism is a Decoy: Yet the supposed AI apocalypse remains science fiction. “A fantastical, adrenalizing ghost story is being used to hijack attention around what is the problem that regulation needs to solve,” Meredith Whittaker, a co-founder of the AI Now...
The bliss of good enough— an ode to my moka pot It's early and unpleasant, and I am woefully uncaffinated. I brave my way through my small apartment towards the kitchen. My back and my left hip ache. I am getting older; crankier. The steady march of time is steadily kicking my ass, a situation I am most keenly aware...
The future of social media Imagine a world, in the not-so-distant future, where anyone can launch a fully functional social media platform with a few clicks and a credit card. From a menu of options, you choose the primary media type (video, microblog, photos, etc.) and basic functionality. You can upload your logo...
OpenAI's “Operator” is Facebook's “like” button Remember when Facebook convinced us that our websites needed a "like" button in the late aughts? Few, if any, of us at the time knew what Facebook was up to. We all sort of just obliged, and by 2010, tens of millions of websites installed the bit of JavaScript that...
The Computational Web This note is a placeholder for a potentially longer, more in-depth essay I hope to publish in the future. Decentralized social media, like blockchain and crypto, promises to topple old power structures and hand the Internet back to the people. But the Internet runs on a stack of technologies,...
Bluesky may have the juice, but we don't have to drink the Kool-Aid Any marketing guru with a Substack and a Udemy course will tell you that your brand should have a mission and an enemy; make your customer the hero, and you play the role of sherpa. I know this not only because I'm a marketer (derogatory) but also...
Meta's Toaster Problem Meta has a toaster problem in that Meta does not sell toasters. Remember the guy who tried to build a toaster by sourcing all its raw materials? His name was Thomas Thwaites, and by his own account, the project was a spectacular failure. It turns out it's very hard to build a toaster from...
Data Piggy Dear Internet, It has come to my attention that people are calling Venture Capitalists "data piggies,” and I for one am appalled. Sure, the definition of a data piggy is a tech sector Venture Capitalist who stuffs their little piggy faces on people's private information until their little piggy overall...
Raw dog the open web! Monoculture is winning. The Fortune 500 has shrink-wrapped our zeitgeist and we are suffocating culturally. But, we can fight back by bookmarking a web page or sharing a piece of art unsanctioned by our For Your Page. To do that we must get out there and raw dog that open web. In our current...
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