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For sharing gloomy poasting, whining, abd complaining. The more apocalyptic or petty the better. It’s always darkest before it turns pitch black.

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I've noticed I'm no longer comfortably unselfconscious working in coffee shops the way I was before the Great Weirding. In 2015 or so, unless I was working with NDAed material, I didn't care if passerby randomly caught a glimpse of the headline of a working draft or in-progress text fragment/message/tweet. I didn't care if they caught sight of a 2x2 or mind-map I was making, or the title of a themed notebook I was working in. I definitely didn't care if they could see the cover of a paper book I was reading. Or overhead a non-sensitive conversation with someone I was meeting. Now I find I don't like it. The cozy tendency has meatspace too. I don't like sharing glimpses of anything I'm working on with any non-vetted opt-in audience. Anyone else experience this?

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Well this is dumb https://inc42.com/features/recurring-payment-conundrum-how-guidelines-have-shaken-indias-subscription-economy/

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There are 4th and 5th degree burns? I thought the scale stopped at 3rd degree. Thermite burns at 4000. These thermite drone weapons sound horrible. Humans are getting steadily nastier to each other. “Under international law, thermite is not banned for military combat, but its use on civilian targets is prohibited because of the horrible effects it can have on the human body. In a 2022 report on incendiary weapons, such as thermite, Human Rights Watch called them “notorious for their horrific human cost,” including inflicting fourth- or fifth-degree burns.” https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/07/europe/ukraine-thermite-dragon-drones-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

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why we make our environments complicated, then add complex products, not seeing complex products will become the environments

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social media can silence them

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seems like a gloom crosspost in order 😕

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"In the future, there will be no cultures, only themes.” ~ Marshall McLuhan (I think)

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An important and sobering article by @mazmhussain https://paragraph.xyz/@unmediatedthoughts/casino-killed-the-computer-star

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keys are the greatest damager of laptop screens

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In politics right now, almost nobody is actually choosing a side; 90% of us are choosing a delaying tactic, waiting for a sane-seeming viable position to emerge, and in the meantime uncomfortably signaling *against* the most insane seeming position among the one available. You’ll notice that most people are far more comfortable attacking either right or left than defending or justifying either. Ie it’s “attack wokeism and stay studiously noncommittal on fascism” or “attack fascism and stay studiously quiet on wokeism.” The 9% who defend an explicitly adopted side mostly sound either clueless enough or grifty enough to ignore. The 1% people who need to be taken seriously and also adopt primarily positive and public defenses of right or left, with attacking the opposition being a secondary priority, are serious only to the extent they are powerful. Not because their positive vision of their “side” is coherent. Dunno if this is a gloomy thought or a positive one though.

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If more of us would act like that the world would be less crap

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You’re probably going to outlive your dog.

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Actually a fascinating exercise to peep into the machinations of the Google algo. https://x.com/TylerDurden/status/1830217782136570173?t=srjIc2u1UV7CEE1zbDumkA&s=19

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I am placed too high.

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