The web is fading, and we feel it

Today's personal stories orbit a shared unease: the systems we rely on, the open web, streaming devices, government programs, are quietly degrading or being replaced. From a eulogy for the old internet to a parent fighting bureaucracy for a wheelchair, the thread is about losing control to convenience, profit, or indifference.

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#01www.minid.netJun 17

The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear

A sharp, personal argument that the open web is being replaced by AI chat and app silos. It's not just nostalgia, the author traces how each interface shift (BBS, Flash, mobile) narrowed what we can do.

16 min readRead original

#02www.theguardian.comJun 17

The NDIS spent a year fighting our request to give our quadriplegic kid a wheelchair. Talk about wasteful

A Guardian essay that makes the NDIS's dysfunction visceral: a year-long fight for a basic wheelchair for a quadriplegic child. The real waste isn't disabled people, it's the bureaucracy itself.

6 min readRead original

#03www.engadget.comJun 17

It's Time To Dump Roku

Engadget's case against Roku is a familiar one: ads everywhere, auto-playing content, declining hardware. It's a microcosm of how once-good products rot when revenue takes over.

#04substack.comJun 17

Jackhammering Into the Sewer

A short, sensory piece about living through construction that's literally jackhammering into a sewer. The physical disruption mirrors the emotional one, something broken beneath the surface.

#05www.washingtonpost.comJun 17

He’s studied procrastination for 40 years. Here’s what he’s learned.

A Washington Post interview with a procrastination researcher who's spent 40 years on the topic. The angle isn't tips, it's the psychology of why we delay, across cultures and decades.