Tag: social-media
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Running/Trying Hard/Pursuing Excellence
My focus has become excellence and trying hard through running. I’m focused on the marathon and working on it as a project for the next few years. I’m 33 and I figure that if I’m going to go for it, now is the time for the marathon. I think that after a few years I…
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HyperNormalisation:Adam Curtis
His documentaries are getting me. Resonating with themes of Baudrillard and mass media and other quite fascinating and unfortunate themes. This one is all the same.
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“Grok, show me the first man without sin”
“In many ways, the project of technology is the elimination of forgetting.” & “We are building perfect records of a life no one lived. And in doing so we are creating a punishment for ourselves that not even the most severe fire and brimstone pastor could imagine: contemporary and continuous judgement in this life.” This…
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“The end of our extremely online era”
We will be lucky if this comes true (is what my gut tells me), and it can start now in my own life if I’m willing. To deny all of the social media and scrolling and “extremely online” behavior is, right now I think, an extremist position. Some things are worth being an extremist over,…
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Living without a phone for 30 days
Well, now I want to try this:
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The dawn of the post literate society
This blog had me agreeing on the surface throughout but after finishing it I was skeptical of a theory this grand. The data is all there and again, very agreeable as you read it. But, you check in with yourself after and you go, ‘who do I know that is like this?’ and the answer…
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An instagram account that makes me laugh
This account really makes me laugh. It’s also brilliantly creative. It’s sort of unfortunate that you can’t *just* write music and share it with the world if you want attention. You have to get creative and this is a particularly special piece of creativity. Just want more stuff that makes me laugh.