Kill everyone? Doubtful. Turn a lot of people into unemployable livestock? Probably.

I just had another "this sucks" moment shortly after developing a new mobile prototype. Users were supposed to be able to create named custom map locations which share what they're doing to people nearby. But what's to stop them from making locations somewhere dangerous or where

As you probably guessed, this video is fake. Why do we even have internet video in 2025?

Still at a wall since my last post. I need to reevaluate how to get people to make friends nearby in a low friction way. But just arranging meetups is not enough to do that. People need to find people online who they can trust, and then see what's around them. I need to think.

We're basically getting worse as people except for 60+ due to social media.

Not a bad idea

Here is your daily nostalgia guilt trip. Enjoy!

There is something strikingly uncanny about the new Cracker Barrel. The old one was lovingly adorned with keepsakes and cherished memories like your dad's old bedroom at grandma's house. The new one showcases them like a science museum, like relics of a conquered culture.

The purpose of a system is what it does

mpetrus I actually think our brains weren’t designed for this much constant information input and internet-sized social circles It’s creating analysis paralysis and overwhelm for many people

Based on the replies, it's becoming clear to me that it's gonna take way more than a shiny new app to solve this problem.

I feel like I'm gonna throw up

“touch grass” isn’t great advice at a time when people are realizing their family members, friends, coworkers, and acquaintances are not on the same page about murder being wrong.

A couple of weeks ago I stalled in my development because I had a crisis of concept, so I took a pause to consider better ideas. After the past week though, I'm not even sure that I want to. The environment required for finding people and making new friends no longer exists.

We used to have culture

The very unfortunate caveat with "touch grass" advice is that the Internet is actively cannibalizing meatspace Human attention is a zero-sum, the Internet is vacuuming it up, and now the old world is dead and gone You should probably still do it though

It's actually accelerating. This is terrifying.

We weren't supposed to live like hamsters. Men need struggle and meaning, whether they know it or not.

The holy grail of social engineering. Apps can't fix this. But maybe you can.

22% of millennials (supposedly) Have no friends and claim to be depressed. Reportedly having no friends is worse for your health than smoking 15 cigarettes a day and millennials are dying more than any other generation. Millennials are apparently getting cancer more, drinking