Very Internet Person

"Blurring the boundaries between living and consuming in this way transfigures every part of our lives — the tragedy, the hardship, the joy — into something to be watched and commented upon. Imitated but never empathized with."

"We are not in a garden like I am in my dreams. We are in a place where entertainment has become the living and those human qualities that were once beyond commodification — attention, creativity, empathy, to name a few — are now capital."

a very good essay on the trouble with content and becoming it in this situation we've ended up with. it's important to be aware of who actually benefits the most from such systems so we don't lose ourselves in the process

"Blurring the boundaries between living and consuming in this way transfigures every part of our lives — the tragedy, the hardship, the joy — into something to be watched and commented upon. Imitated but never empathized with."

"We are not in a garden like I am in my dreams. We are in a place where entertainment has become the living and those human qualities that were once beyond commodification — attention, creativity, empathy, to name a few — are now capital."

a very good essay on the trouble with content and becoming it in this situation we've ended up with. it's important to be aware of who actually benefits the most from such systems so we don't lose ourselves in the process

https://internetbedroom.substack.com/p/against-content

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if u couple this with the essay i shared yesterday and the idea that our tools end up shaping us, then irl is not that far behind in this degradation (╥_╥) i think the upcoming election feels more and more to me like a referendum on whether we want to wade deeper into the apocalypse – whether the general population want to maintain some semblance of civility or just go full-on pvp purge mode

This post made me realize we're living (digitally) in an apocalyptic world. We just gotta sit this shit out and wait to see what's on the other side. Hopefully we'll build back better but who the hell knows. These lil' gardens we have in our silos are all we've got to stay sane.

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i still surf the old fashioned way (๑>ᴗ<๑) not depending on algos to give me something, just going link to link to link, searching only chronologically, typing urls into the url bar. sometimes i find nothing. sometimes i find good things!

thx for appreciating the things i share! <3

where do you find all this great content every day ? ✨ 

gm anyway great to wake up to your posts ☕️

Added to my reading pile. Looking forward to reading.

"the market dynamics of social media have affected absolutely every corner of the internet and, therefore, “real life” [...] Now all the damned Internet works as a social media platform, and this will shape people’s perception of the world. Just like Marshall McLuhan said: "We shape our tools and then our tools shape us."

this piece reminded me of a convo i had last week with someone thru my homepage. they said they wanted to leave the main web and only be on the small internet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ my response was that i didn't think that was possible bc the world is so entangled with the big internet these days. turning away and leaving the tools to bad ppl won't prevent the effects they will have on everyone irl. good ppl need to show good alternative uses for the tools

https://www.animanoir.xyz/blog/2024/the-death-state-of-the-internet/

also somewhat related, the link and convo thread from the previous day about substance over spectacle and the feedback loop of the tools we engage with

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https://linktr.ee/tinyrainboot

also somewhat related, the link and convo thread from the previous day about substance over spectacle and the feedback loop of the tools we engage with

https://warpcast.com/riotgoools/0xb54d857e

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read this . thank you for sharing . mostly agree with the writer in terms of her opinion and also enjoyed how she framed it with various stories . it is not unfamiliar territory for me . now want to read the essay by Susan Sontag . recall  reading some of her work back in art school . need a re-fresher . in general there are no easy answers to our current situation . it does feel like a prison .