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One of the hardest and loneliest battles youâll have to fight as you work to build the life you want is maintaining unwavering self belief that you will make it despite having *nothing* to show for it over a 2-3 year period before you see âovernightâ success. Youâll feel like an imposter telling others what youâre building and who you believe... See more
Bx.combut whether parasocial content is desirable or not, it points to a growing crisis on the internet: So much of what we encounter online just doesnât matter , and even worse, offers no mechanism for us to start caring about it. The average human living today sees more things they donât care about in one week than a medieval peasant did in their... See more
Drew Austin ⢠The Internet's Meaning Crisis
Climate Dad ⢠Tweet
âJust as the Black Death gave way to the enlightenment in Europe I was playing with this idea that climate change could give way to the delightenment.â
Tristan Zimmermann
Intelligence is not central to the success of most life on Earth. Consider the grasses: theyâve flourished across incredibly diverse global environments, without planning or debating a single step. Planarian worms regrow any part of their body and are functionally immortal, a trick we can manage only in science fiction. And a microscopic virus... See more
Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam ⢠What Is Intelligent Life?
The archetypal influencer produces life-style porn of one form or another, playing up the aspirational glamour of their own home or meals or vacations. The new wave of curators is more outward-looking, borrowing from the influencerâs playbook and piggybacking on social mediaâs intimate interaction with followers in order to address a body of... See more
đâ¨The Nexialist #0177
"the question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
- edsger dijkstra
According to another global study from a few years ago, and the largest one on the topic so far, over two-thirds (68%) of the public would like more rest.