From 0b9561d45545422ab1c5616f4e7c32738737af82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ekzyis Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:37:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add poem 'internet feelings' --- content/internet_feelings/index.md | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/internet_feelings/index.md diff --git a/content/internet_feelings/index.md b/content/internet_feelings/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8958b96 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/internet_feelings/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +title: internet feelings +date: 2024-11-19T20:09:04.857Z +sn_id: 774628 +--- + +Here’s a [little poem](https://stacker.news/items/621774) I wrote while I was in Nashville for the Bitcoin Circlejerk 2024. I came up with it because I felt a little lost, as I often do around people, but this time I felt especially lost because I had to walk home in the dark for an hour, and my phone’s battery was almost dead. My VISA card was declined by Uber for no apparent reason. + +When I got home, someone mentioned that I could have called them, and they would have ordered an Uber for me. I didn’t know that was an option, but even if I had known, I probably wouldn’t have called—I wouldn’t have wanted to bother them. The walk back also wasn’t terrible; I just didn’t like the circumstances that led to it. If I remember correctly, I walked down Broadway and passed some art covered in 1's and 0's. + +I tried to decipher it in [ASCII](https://www.asciitable.com/), and then it hit me: most people probably wouldn’t have any idea how text can be encoded in binary (or even what encoding means). They would just see 1's and 0's, while I was busy trying to recall the ASCII table in my head, hoping to uncover a hidden message. That’s when the idea for this poem came to me. + +> **internet** +> +> encodings over encodings become\ +> encryption for the masses,\ +> reason for the hopeless,\ +> culture war for the lost,\ +> weapon for the opportunists,\ +> power for the seekers,\ +> reality for the deceived,\ +> topic for the historians,\ +> poetry for you + +I wonder if 'internet feelings' would have been a better title.