I’ve got my mind on collections this week.
Collections in the second brain sense of the word. Big blogs of knowledge that I have that are scattered across thoughts, bits of paper, digital notes and various bookmarks. I’m a little bit obsessed with collections because I think, taken as a whole, they basically describe who I am and all of the things rattling around on my pages.
So right here on this site I want to try to create a series of collection pages which combine:
- Notes and bookmarks I keep on this blog
- Highlights collected in Raindrop
- Pieces from other sites I write on
- A general blob of content that can serve as an introduction / organizational piece
That seems doable. Going to experiment with it a bit in WordPress.
September 8, 2024
Since reading this, I’ve been tracing the zyntranet, for at least the reason that it’s a demographic that a) Trump seems very interested in and b) almost certainly won’t vote. It’s a movement without a personality, a subculture without an identity. The superficial output of a flattening of culture. The next wave of boomers.
Over the last ten years or so, a broad community of fratty, horndog, boorishly provocative 20- and sometimes (embarrassingly) 30-somethings–mostly but by no means entirely male–has emerged to form a newly prominent online subculture. This network is adjacent to the “sports internet” of 40something dads and the “hustle internet” of Miami crypto bullshit and the “reactionary internet” of trad influencers, but is its own distinct community with its own distinct cultural referents–college sports, gambling, light domestic beers, Zyn nicotine pouches–and influential personalities and media outlets, among them Dave Portnoy, Pat McAfee, Antonio Brown, and Call Her Daddy, in addition to dozens of minor podcasters and hey-fellow-kids content creators who nearly all work for sports-betting concerns.
