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Been watching a lot of stuff lately that touches on the intersection of geo-politics and the cyberization of the body (see Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, X-Files, The Shrouds, etc.)
So often people are really down on how complex and amorphous the plots can be but isnât that the whole point?
What better reflects our reality than a messy shadow world brimming with malicious government and tech sector actors seeking to weaponize our bodies and minds? These stories aim for a certain realism and achieve it in their refusal to provide clean answers.
So often, there is no truth for us anymore. Everything is a false flag, everything is a psy-op, who does the smoking man really work for? Weâre the victims and we can only grasp at half-truths and accept that weâll never know. Yet in accepting that, we reach a deeper truth of another kind.
Apr 26, 2025
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âNOTHING IS TRUE, EVERYTHING IS CONTENT.â
by Colin Broadmoor
Made me feel human again
May 3, 2024
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everything is politics. from vaccines to lgbt matters, politicians have leveraged the things conservative americans donât understand to stoke fear and confusion.
this isnât anything new. what is new is the algorithms that reenforce those fears. comment sections weâre told to treat like real conversation just flooded with faceless accounts saying their most vile inside thoughts. itâs easy to want to interact and easier to just read it all and be mad. but every second spent engaging is another brain scrambling distraction.
these sensationalized posts and comments do nothing for education, understanding, or empathy. even on the left, slacktivism actively hurts the cause. theres an idea that someone who holds ignorant beliefs is *bad* in all politicized fields. but letâs be real, just because uncle jeff is pissed about tuck underwear it doesnât mean heâs a climate change denier. generalizing people is exactly what politicians want from us.
social issues are important and politics arenât going away from that any time soon. but social media is a slippery slope and i personally refuse to engage. when it bleeds into my real life (âparents just WANT their kids to be transâ) i try to engage in conversations that get to the root of the issue. whereâs this info coming from, why do you believe that? these are the kind of questions strangers wonât ask them on the internet.
misinformation is a sickness that weâre all plagued with. to find some truth and understanding we cannot be having these discussions on platforms like facebook or instagram or twitter. if we do, weâre just giving these tech ceos and politicians what they need: engagement and fear
4d ago
i'm always getting too bleak about technology and AI, about the brain rot and disassociation and spiraling out and general cognitive decline we're all experiencing, that will only continue to worsen with time. but this essay gave me some hope
âDo you see a way out?â
âYeah, I mean .â.â. Iâm not in the business of saving the world, but it would definitely be a better and more interesting place if more people were involved in making these things. Thatâs the fundamental thing: that if more software, more buildings, more social spaces, and more everything were designed by more people, of course it would produce a more interesting and better world! ...One of Stafford Beerâs more famous and brilliant phrases was âPOSIWID,â which stands for âthe purpose of the system is what it does.â Itâs a kind of maxim of cybernetics. And itâs very good for diagnosing systems. Instead of saying, Oh, we have a democratic system, we have an education system, you say, The purpose of the system is what it does. And what our society produces is people who are undereducated, or just educated enough to perform specific tasksâthe way to get a good education is to study something that has this high economic value. Apart from that, you are pretty fucked. The purpose of the system is to reproduce the existing power dynamics of that system again and again. That is what it does. Society has no interest in educating you in how technology works. Because then you make your own technology, and you make different technology, and you upset the economic power balance and so forth. But it is doable, and people are doing it all the time. You can do it yourself.â
May 30, 2025
Top Recs from @YungChicken
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If you watch the American Kitchen Nightmares on Tubi itâs uncensored which makes it at least 20x funnier than it already is.
Gordon is a solid British curser but the weekly rotating restaurant crews are the big draw here. You get cursing in regional dialects from all over the country from all kinds of weirdos who bring their unique, vulgar flavor to the table.
This show is just a total gem in general but the real star is the narrator. The voice over narration on this show is comically dead pan to the point of surreality, kind of reminiscent of something like Fishing With John or The Rehearsal. Itâs so good you begin to think it must have been intentionally tongue in cheek but then you remember the audience for this shit was post 9-11 suburban Fox watchers (Cops, 24, American Idol, etc. etc.) and you realize itâs all sincere.
May 26, 2025
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Plastic Beach with a full orchestra and all the guest stars âšđ
Apr 22, 2025
That fuckin piano line goes so hard and gets stuck in my head every time + thereâs a chicken on the cover đ€
May 3, 2025