### intro --- modern news media moves at a breakneck pace, reporting breathlessly on every little thing that people do or say. with neutrality toward truth, ambivalence toward context, fearing loss of journalistic access and status, all in a desperate bid to capture your attention- outlets churn out stenographic bullshit for the raging-idiot-generation machine that is algorithmic [^algo] social media. the content is bad and the headlines are worse. > [!quote] "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."- The New York Times ^[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/world/americas/venezuela-mood.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p08.M7zX.zPQWjqibIFlF&smid=url-share] "person says" / "experts say" journalism is a blight on our society. but it keeps big media in business as local media outlets struggle for clicks, wither away and get bought up by billionaires for pennies on the dollar. i hate all of this so much! i hate when people get wrapped up in dumb repetitive social media discourse. i hate that the media, the elite, the politicians, none of them suffer consequences for anything they do, any lies they tell. i feel like i am trapped on a small boat in a raging sea. **so, in light of this, i have worked to engineer a solution: i believe we must [[PIVOT TO WIKI]]. by building wiki systems and intentionally directing our time/money/attention to them, we can start to organize information in a purposeful and useful way. however, we also need [[goals-based universal paywalls]] to make doing so financially sustainable.** --- ### this site many people correctly blamed the terrible info environment for kamala harris losing the 2024 presidential election to donald trump. however, their proposed solutions were often along the line of "democrats need to invest directly into local journalism" ^[https://prospect.org/politics/2024-11-07-time-for-democrats-abandon-mainstream-media/]. but i reasoned that [[local media|local media isn't the solution]], because what we're really up against is the [*attention economy*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy). this led me to develop [[PIVOT TO WIKI]] and set up this site to host it. this site exists to organize my thoughts, collect my references, host my long-form arguments, and other things of that nature. hopefully to some degree it will save me from having to repeat the same things on social media and demonstrate the utility of wiki formats. ### development this site is very much an early work in progress. expect lots of partly-finished content and continual reorganization of pages. additionally, the obsidian feature called [bases](https://help.obsidian.md/bases) is still under development and is not yet available to use on Publish sites, which breaks many of the pages. - see: [[obsidian#roadmap|obsidian roadmap]] obsidian also does not have a native way to publish file history. storing all previous versions of files also takes up a ton of space. what i can (will) do though is make sure to keep a "modified time" property present in all my notes, and when Bases is available for Publish, you'll be able to see which pages i've [[recently modified]] in time order. --- ## about me **age**: 26 **location**: alabama native, -> indianapolis -> currently on contract abroad in milan, italy. **education**: BSME & MBA with focus in logistics and supply chain **employment**: engineering/project management at a transmission manufacturer **what i believe**: [[my personal ideology|read this]] **online profiles**: [bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/jortscity.bsky.social). i'm also semi-active in discord but don't prefer it #### my subscriptions (no particular order): | name | $ / mo | $ / yr | | -------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | | liberal currents - patron | 4.16 | 50 | | spotify premium | 12 | 144 | | relay for reddit- platinum | 5 | 60 | | rocket money | 4.28 | 51.35 | | microsoft 365 | | 75? | | obsidian sync plus | 8 | 96 | | obsidian publish<br>(powers this site) | 8 | 96 | | google storage | 8 | 96 | | claude pro | 20 | 240 | | | | | [^algo]: (To be clear, algorithms amplify/worsen it, but much-less-algorithm-dependent social media platforms such as Bluesky definitely still have the raging idiot problem.)