Repost: Avital Balwit, "My Last Five Years of Work"
“Copywriting, tax preparation, customer service, and many other tasks are or will soon be heavily automated.”
Repost: After Babel, "On The Degrading Effects of Life Online"
“We can so easily disguise our vanity as virtue.” “allowed a generation to be raised by algorithms”
Repost: WSJ, "China Orders Apple to Remove Popular Messaging Apps"
“{China is} concerned that these apps could be used by its citizens to spread negative content and cause social unrest.”
Repost: Steven Vaughan-Nichols, "3 million smart toothbrushes were not..."
“You should also never charge your device at a public USB port. That same port that charges your gadget can also infect it.”
@Everyone and Choosing Violence
@everyone shatters the mindlessness of doom scrolling. It forces you to be mindful.
Why don't we just take the water, and push it somewhere else?
We are looking at diverting about 1,444 km^3 annually, resulting in 72,200 km^3 over 50 years.
Repost: Noam Chomsky, "The False Promise of ChatGPT"
“the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations.”
Three Recs I Dont Have Time For
I used Chat GPT to give me the sparknotes on these three websites. I’ll vaguely promise to revisit each of them later. Two relate to influencers in the business world, the other a concept.
Repost: Arielle Lana LeJarde (Resident Advisor), "'Anonymity is a lost art': Why some artists are taking breaks from social media"
DnB DJ Halogenix, “The insatiable appetite {social media} creates to be constantly seen is destroying not only my mental health, but the core values and qualities of the [music] culture that I fell in love with.’”