
Once You Get the Message, Hang Up the Phone

The Flattening
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SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES
In the ever present Twitter meme of “the same people that pivoted to web3 are now pivoting to AI” — I find it quite dangerous that folks don’t genuinely hold on to a few core questions that fulfill them. Instead it seems that many of us are willing to blow wherever the clout winds might most accumulate to our sails.
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In the ever present Twitter meme of “the same people that pivoted to web3 are now pivoting to AI” — I find it quite dangerous that folks don’t genuinely hold on to a few core questions that fulfill them. Instead it seems that many of us are willing to blow wherever the clout winds might most accumulate to our sails.
Now, the nat... See more
Reggie James • Ask The Same Question
His account is, perhaps unintentionally, a harsh verdict on the shallowness and inadequacy of activism based on internet and social media strategies.
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
The internet has dramatically changed our ability to know things, but our ability to change things has remained the same, or possibly diminished as a) most of our free-time is now spread out in unsatisfying micro doses of scrolling throughout the day b) seeming has become more important than doing.
On the Internet, clapping for essential workers is
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