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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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There's no King in No Kings

fromjason.xyz · 2mo

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...

The Computational Web and the Old AI Switcharoo

fromjason.xyz · 3mo

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...

Slop is Everywhere For Those With Eyes to See

fromjason.xyz · 3mo

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...

Hank Green And The Fantastical Tales of God AIs

fromjason.xyz · 4mo

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...

The bliss of good enough— an ode to my moka pot

fromjason.xyz · 10mo

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...

The future of social media

fromjason.xyz · 14mo

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....

OpenAI's “Operator” is Facebook's “like” button

fromjason.xyz · 15mo

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...

The Computational Web

fromjason.xyz · 16mo

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...

Bluesky may have the juice, but we don't have to drink the Kool-Aid

fromjason.xyz · 16mo

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...

Meta's Toaster Problem

fromjason.xyz · 18mo

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...

Data Piggy

fromjason.xyz · 19mo

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...

Raw dog the open web!

fromjason.xyz · 20mo

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...

FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared.

fromjason.xyz · 23mo

FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared. For years, FireChat helped people circumvent their internet gatekeepers— the authoritarian governments and spineless...

Any Technology Indistinguishable From Magic is Hiding Something

fromjason.xyz · 2y

Any Technology Indistinguishable From Magic is Hiding Something Somewhere between the death of our favorite aggregator websites and the world surviving a pandemic, the modern...

Where have all the websites gone?

fromjason.xyz · 2y

Where have all the websites gone? It’s Tuesday morning. The year is 2009. You’re just waking up after a long and boozy New Year’s Eve with friends. Your head rings, and your...

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