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politics people who know more than me talk about Epic acquiringĀ Bandcamp

March 2, 2022: Bandcamp puts out a press release about their ā€œjoiningā€ Epic Games. This follows in a line of eerily similar acquisitions of companies catering to indies, namely Sketchfab and ArtStation.

There are lots of interesting topics intersectingĀ here:

  • Venture capital and the associated perverseĀ incentives
  • Antitrust and general issues with corporateĀ consolidations
  • The takeover of existing institutions, especially technicalĀ infrastructure
  • The false narrative of corporations as indie andĀ non-corporate
  • Epic vs Apple and problems of platformĀ monopoly
  • Bandcamp’s correct but rare approach to piracy, which isĀ endangered

I’ll talk more about those some day, don’t worry. For now, though, have someĀ tweets.

fandom Polygon’s ā€œLife after Homestuckā€Ā (Thread)

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politics Tweets about the attack on theĀ Capitol

Twitter is an ephemeral medium. You scroll through tweets just fast enough for them to register in your head, and then they’re gone forever. If you want to find something again, you can go to somebody’s profile and scroll through, one tweet at a time, until you find what youĀ wanted.

This is a lousy way of capturing history. That’s not great, because Twitter does such a good job of capturing important moments, as they happen. If you want to save that moment, though, what can you do? What do you do if you think a day’s tweets are important? Print themĀ out?

Well, I did. Here is what I tweeted and retweeted, on a page. Tactile. To beĀ read.