Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
Banning billionaires would thus be an indirect fix — the more enduring solution lies in reformulating how digital networks are shaping society.
Jaron Lanier • The dangerous fantasies driving the quest for super-intelligent AI
Namaste.
instagram.comGoethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it. Begin it now."
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
For that bit of boilerplate, we can indirectly thank none other than Grigori Rasputin, the famously hard-to-assassinate Russian mystic and intimate of the last, doomed Romanovs. It all started when an exiled Russian prince, Felix Yusupov, and his wife Irina sued MGM in 1933 over the studio’s Rasputin biopic, claiming that the American production... See more
Movie disclaimers started because of Rasputin
Imagine a “situational thesaurus.” Instead of just unpacking related words, you unpack all the contexts that a word can apply. Examples:
addle — social media, work, disinformation (dilution from quantity)
faustian — VR / AGI or e/acc, finance, cloning, influencers, adderall, steroids
platonic — solids, relationships, education, leisure, cognition
But we should also remember that so much of what we call ‘madness’ or ‘mental illness’ is actually just behaviour that does not lend itself well to the capitalist economic system. Politicising mental health means questioning why we call certain things madness or mental illness, and allowing people to make their own minds up about their experiences... See more
Dazed • This New Book Asks Whether Capitalism Really Is Driving Us All Crazy
Your next great ride is building in a yet unseeable swell. And when it does suddenly make its appearance, you’ve got to paddle like Hell to catch it. I never understood the confluence of luck and effort so clearly.