The Secret Instructions to Brain Games
TBH, I just wanted to share a Waffle tip. Then I wrote all this. NERD!
Living Through War and Star Trek
Messages of resilience—like those found in Star Trek—are more important than ever.
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.”
A History of Good Vibes (Sex Toys)
The story of vibrators and a short rant about the sex industry
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.