It rained more than usual yesterday—if such a thing as “normal” even exists these days. I remember 2023—specifically February—when it rained so heavily that a landslide occurred, sweeping the walls of the lot next to my house out into the middle of the street, causing a traffic jam and widespread panic. That image is very vivid—perhaps because not much time has passed since then, and life was much the same—but I miss not being on the brink of a historic climate crisis. Frankly, I am exhausted by living through historic periods, though almost every period is historic. I don’t recall simpler times, even though I was young—which shouldn’t have been an issue.

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Just as the Neolithic period is to history, blogs are to the history of the internet. With the rise of social media, search algorithms have begun to prioritize recommending them over traditional blogs, with immense algorithms specifically designed to keep you within these networks for as long as possible, thus profiting from AdSense and directly influencing your emotions in a Spinozist sense. What I’m aiming for here by creating this blog is the opposite movement, inspired by Mark Fisher’s K-punk. I intend to write about everything that affects me, not depending on a recommendation algorithm and distancing myself from social networks like Twitter, Substack, Instagram, etc.

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