clinically undepressed guy: im thinking of Beginning it all

I think we can confidently say that throwing pattern-seeking animals into an info environment that assembles reality on the basis of individual preferences and personalized algorithms was an extremely shitty social experiment

If a simple coffee shop has a bot farm with 100s of phones to amplify their message, please consider what a foreign agency or adversarial operator is running on your favorite social media platform. Especially today, please consider that the opinions you read, the calls to

there is literally not a single day in present day society where the waffles vs pancakes guy isn’t vindicated

In Indonesia food delivery worker was brutally killed by the police, sparking a massive protest against authoritarian government, in Ukraine hundreds every day are killed by Russians; in Palestine, Israeli soldiers organize safari’s against civilians and use hunger as a method of

ur telling me that there’s an unfathomably deep well of violence and hatred that lies at the heart of the white christian middle class all american nuclear family????

have we well and truly lost the plot then?

how many feel justified to spread vengeance and consider themselves the abject authority backed by God regardless of how constricted their heart is and hateful their intentions are. intensely scary people

also westerners are not resourceful and lack the common sense necessary to survive. you can’t even handle someone disagreeing with you, you think you can handle war?

so fascinating to see this versus russophone twitter, the majority conclusion of which is that this is a man’s crime, above and beyond race, while westerners singlemindedly use race as the only defining characteristic of the murderer

I come across AI writing everywhere now. Both smart and dumb are using it. They told you to be optimistic, not a luddite, this beautiful technology, this profound artificial ‘intelligence’ that has brought about great… similarity. That has flattened our personalities into

God, you gave these people a brain but they refuse to use it. I’m sure there’s a reason for their ignorance in this life. Keep them from harming themselves or others as they do with these truly cruel and delusional takes

Hmm no more. I actually just don’t think engaging in “political takes” on social media is doing anything constructive for the world. It’s time to actually get out in the real world, talk to people with dignity, create bonds in the community and help others with no agenda

19 March, 1937 (Paris) My darling, my life, my dear love. I forbid you to be miserable, I love you and… there’s no power in the world that could take away or spoil even an inch of this endless love.

encouragement of a different set of values, like finding the self through a connection with community, nature, caring for others? maybe a touch of shame towards chronically online behavior? but i don’t know if this is realistic for such a hyper-individualized society like america