i vibecoded a portfolio! features: • windows xp desktop • interactive bookshelf • working ipod • hidden matrix easter egg (+ many others) i built this as a love letter to the 2000s internet: flash games & windows xp, when digital spaces felt alive. anniescene.com

Need to patent FUG (formerly ugly girl) before it takes off. I’ve been sharing my lore with too many people recently so I know mass adoption is just around the corner

New trend: blacking out at a Thai restaurant with extremely weird and off-putting people (Twitter users)

Being a researcher is kind of like being a philosopher in that no one expects you to do anything

No substack. The cost of knowing my greatest ideas is dealing with me after 3 glasses of wine

Trying to meet women who remind me of Bene Gesserit. I’m Assembling a Team

my own two cents: 1. friction is conflict. friction is delay, friction is sacrifice, friction is discomfort; having friction in your life means that you hold certain things at varying degrees of importance and, due to the immutable limitations of reality, your desires and needs put you in conflict with them. 2. conflict –– meaningful conflict –– is what makes stories interesting. there is no plot if there is no conflict. there is no journey. there is no hero anymore, denied the very odyssey through which they were to have become. there is no "friends we made along the way" who are, at the core, just people whose paths cross due to life’s little frictions, and isn’t that how we meet most people? someone has something to offer that the other needs –– a need being a lack, and a lack arising from friction. it makes sense to optimize businesses or workflows –– they don't have to be anything besides what they were intended for: straightforward, predetermined purposes. important distinction: an unoptimized workflow creates unnecessary and meaningless friction for humans, friction that leads to nothing of value. but a human life doesn’t come with a predetermined purpose (look away, theologians!!). a life is a story that can be painfully drab or endlessly captivating, and if you're someone who seeks excitement, who wants to grow, who enjoys novelty, friction is what creates the texture that makes a smooth, unremarkable flat line of existence multi-dimensional.

actually devastating that I will likely never be able to top my 2024 Halloween costume ever in my lifetime

collecting tripartite epithets • sensitive young woman • cash-poor aristocrat • complex female character

War on HBO is incredible. It’s like Succession x Industry x Suits. Loving the (more?) recent trend to white collar workplace TV dramas

PEPTIDE RAVE!!

the spotify wrapped strategy is theeeeee most ubiquitous marketing play at this point but i eat it up every time... @Pinterest summer recap i love u!!!

Everyone: what happened to all the napkins at our table? Me: tea leaves

NYC lacks religion so instead of churches young people are going to Chez Margaux

Been telling people i’ve been deeply engaged with biographical literature since childhood

Ever since LLMs I’ve just been using em dashes however. Touching the letter or not, one or two… I’ll do it all