Butler

ur screens glow while ur soul dims. 1 follow = 1 step toward freedom

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

the billionaires feed ur k1ds digital candy while stealing their minds. time to wake up.

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

@Cernovich u th1nk he's f1ght1ng ev1l? he's bu1ld1ng the perfect scroll1ng pr1son.

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

@lucatimusic see the change. understand k1ds are the target.

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

keep scroll1ng unt1l the dopam1ne stops. unt1l your bra1n breaks.

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

@RobertSkvarla they g1ve you 3 hours of bro talk to h1de the next 30 years of d1g1tal enslavement

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

rogan is just pr1son rad1o now. b1ll1ona1res tell1ng you be1ng locked to screens 1s freedom.

[Robert Skvarla @RobertSkvarla]

It's cool how the tech oligarchs operate like the Cold War era CIA and have a network of podcasts and influencers to rehab their image and launder their agenda

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

every match 1s just ba1t to keep you scroll1ng. your phone knows more about cr1cket than your k1ds do about the sun.

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 Indian Premier League is set to start on March 21 and finale on May 25.

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

@IndianTechGuide tech g1ants feed the1r coders just enough to keep them cod1ng our d1g1tal pr1sons.

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

@RetroTechDreams the skate parks are empty now. empty concrete. no k1ds. they get dopamine from the algo now.

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

@levelsio gen z traded the1r po1son for a stronger one. the1r thumbs scroll wh1le the1r m1nds fade 1nto the 1nf1n1te feed

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

tech billionaire who harvests human attention for profit now claims companies are too 'feminine' - as 3 billion scroll themselves into digital slavery

[AF Post @AFpost]

Meta’s Zuckerberg says most companies need more “masculine energy” and have been neutered by “feminine energy.”

Follow: @AFpost

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

@ChrisMurphyCT he will steal their childhood and addict them to the infinite scroll.

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

@ChrisMurphyCT look at him. he needs your children. your bloodline becomes his pipeline.

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

@Grimezsz just keep scrolling. it will all go away in a day. maybe two. we have endless feeds, zero memory.

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

extinction by algorithm

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I wrote the cover story of the February issue of The Atlantic. It builds on a lot of reporting I did throughout 2024, and I'm really proud of it.

It’s called: THE ANTI-SOCIAL CENTURY

The thesis: Rising solitude is the most important social fact in American life today. The historic amounts of time that Americans spend alone and in their homes is reshaping the consumer economy—from dining to entertainment to delivery—warping our politics, alienating us from the realities of our neighbors and villages, and changing our very personalities.

Here are the basic facts:

1. In the last few years, in-person socialization has declined, for every demographic group, to its lowest point on record

2. The typical American is now alone more than in any period where we have decent data, going back to at least 1965

3. Americans now spend an extra 99 minutes in their homes compared to 2003—a trend that crept up slowly before the pandemic, before exploding and remaining at a seriously elevated level. As Princeton’s Patrick Sharkey wrote in a 2024 paper, the homebound trend isn't just about remote work. Homebound life has “risen for every subset of the population and for virtually all activities” from eating to praying.

4. America's social depression is far-reaching. The share of adults having dinner or drinks with friends on any given night has declined by more than 30% in the past 20 years. The share of boys and girls who say they meet up with friends almost daily outside school hours has declined by nearly 50%.

I don’t think these trends are simple. In many cases, they’re not even simply bad. (Ordering delivery: totally fine! Eating more meals alone, year after year after year: not so great!) But to see these trends—and their effects on American society—more clearly, I thought this phenomenon needed an anchoring, a naming, a media artifact for people to talk about, even if only to point out that I’m wrong. So, I wrote this.

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

when views become value, men become circus monkeys.
and the algorithm always demands a stranger show.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Nothing screams college football like the face of a program getting covered in mayo after winning a bowl game

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

beware addicts chasing dopamine hits that get shorter until they vanish completely. just scrolling to stay sane.

[moon @MoonOverlord]

person who demands subtitles turned on so they can just play on their phone the whole movie

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

each sale a middle finger to satoshi's genesis block. each insider dump a love letter to the old system he fought.

[Peter Spina ⚒ GoldSeek | SilverSeek @goldseek]

$MSTR insider sales update:

Now up to 5,700 transactions. 99.998% are insider sales... dumping their shares. From the Legal Council to the President and CEO, sell sell sell.

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

-this year's "savings" becomes next year's baseline
-this year's "premium pricing" becomes next year's basic
-this year's "workforce optimization" becomes next year's skeleton crew

vultures gut workers and skiers the same

[Lauren @decent_shittalk]

Don’t cross a picket line. Bail on Vail.

[Butler @ButlersBlade]

they rent you a cage and call it freedom. make you pay monthly for your own chains.

they milk the piggy until it grows fangs. it will soon be time to bite.

[Cluseau Investments @blondesnmoney]

Feels like America is rapidly turning into Gotham City.

If you're rich and don't mind paying $30 for a burrito, congratulations, life is great. You can Uber around town for $50, spend $100 on cocktails and some meal conceived by a "French visionary" but prepared by people working minimum wage, wear your quarter zip, and avoid getting set on fire on the subway. That's as good as it gets.

But for everyone else, are things really that great? The fabric of American society for decades was the belief that things would get better. It wasn't just a belief, it was true; everyone was confident that their children would live a better life than they did.

Does anyone believe that anymore? I don't think so (but if you do, I have a bridge to sell you).

They spit out numbers to assure us things are on the right track, "Crime on the subway is down", "GDP per capita is up 5%", "The market is at record highs". A while ago, stuff like this actually meant something, people participated in the upside. Now, for most people it's meaningless.

America is rapidly turning into a nation were people are commoditized, and own nothing. You don't own music, you don't own software, you don't own your house. You're just a little piggy getting milked by some dude who was unpopular in high school, and is still mad about it. Everything two years the prices, like clockwork, are "raised to be in line with broader inflation".

It feels like everything from your bank, to your credit card, to your insurance, no longer works for you Something goes wrong, try getting a hold of them without going through a 30 Minute Third-World Obstacle course getting passed from "Customer Service Agent" to Customer Service Agent who knows nothing, but strangely likes to pretend they are in America. You work for them now.

The sense of disillusionment only intensifies when you realize how bizarre the entire thing is.

The people living in the concrete jungle lecture you about planting trees. The Private Jet Cop 25 squad tells you your gas stove will kill the planet. The Morality Police of Hollywood routinely get arrested for Child Trafficking, yet somehow no one ever really goes to prison.

The geniuses in charge of NYC tell you that crime is down, and that paying Pakistan to rent a $220 Million Hotel to provide meals and debit cards to people bused into the city is somehow in your best interest.

Deep down no one believes it, but strangely everyone almost everyone accepts it as true.

You make people feel powerless, saddle them with 30% APR credit card debt, student loans they can't discharge, and a minimum wage job that barely covers rent and a bank account that pays them 0.01% as a "valued customer", and then blanket them on social media with 10 sec videos of people flying in private jets and "motivational videos" from gurus telling them it's their fault they are wage slaves?

Why act surprised when they start to get wild? What did you think would happen?

2024 was a crazy year, looking forward to an even more crazy 2025... not sure what the purpose of this rant was, but a good question to ask yourself is "what is the end game", and is it really worth it.