Aaron Parecki

NFTs are such a perfect distillation of capitalist brain poison, the idea of "ownership" stripped of all pretense of use-value and made into pure unadulterated wealth signaling. Paying money for literally nothing other than proof that you paid that money.

Maybe, just maybe, if your preferred tech stack requires burning hectares of Brazilian rainforest to make imaginary numbers, you're doing it wrong. It's 2021. We don't have the time to entertain teenage libertarian Simon-over-Ehrlich fantasies that sustainability doesn't matter.

Just watched @aaronpk studio tour video. And I think he should share with us the extended map of cable management 😎

No, the #AI in this device is not yet as smart as something between a brainy fly and a very dumb mouse.

Ready for the show ! @aaronpk #pk1stand

I complain about YouTube from time to time because sometimes it just feels good.

But I legitimately love that YouTube exists.

One of the best things I’ve ever done in my life is start a YouTube channel and I do not regret it for an instant.

me, sobbing: you can’t just call everything a salad!

germany, pointing at literally anything mixed together in a bowl: salat

Billionaire’s union-busting company good for working people, says media outlet owned by another billionaire. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-16/amazon-s-new-factory-towns-will-lift-the-working-class

That moment when you realize doom scrolling infosec Twitter is part of your job responsibilities.

Next batch of standard name plates for the PK1 Pro MKII Stand are done and ready to pack. Get your custom nameplate with your #pk1stand #atem #atemmini #atemminipro #inux3dau #inux3d https://www.instagram.com/p/CT6Fa5FJa2r/?utm_medium=twitter

last minute switch up…

13 Mini is going to be the sleeper hit in reviews over the next couple weeks.

The 2.5 hour 🔋 increase along with the MagSafe battery pack being available at launch. 👀

It’s the perfect sized phone with amazing cameras. I’m gonna add it to the cart.

Well, I need another 5k followers before I can charge you for my tweets.

This is kind of the ultimate YouTube/streaming/video studio tour from @aaronpk. Brilliant ideas and solutions at every turn!

https://youtu.be/IS-jr31Ia2A

Word of the day is the German ‘Verschlimmbesserung’: an attempted improvement that only makes matters worse.

If you’re looking for a more pronounceable English equivalent, to ‘arsle’ is to shuffle inevitably backwards.

I like to imagine they had no idea how to integrate payment systems, so every time I buy groceries Amazon creates a gift card for the purchase amount which is then used immediately. Every banana purchase is like a little birthday party!

If I understand correctly, the COVID passport in EU is JSON turned into CBOR encoded into CWT with PS256 signature with JWKS available for the verification of the signatures. #eic2021

I'm honestly surprised there isn't a conspiracy theory about how covid was created by the QR code industry

was talking with event organizer friends about what goes into a perfect conference experience for attendees and only realizing later that listing out each step on how to design a great conference was remarkably similar to a punch list of how one would start a cult.

NAB just got cancelled. You know what that means. I can pretend I was really definitely for sure going to go and it's not my fault I can't now.