I think some behaviors need to be socially shamed, like using AI to generate a novel or chatbots to write grocery lists. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
Absolutely zero drip. Any “experienced” person I’ve known had a way to make you feel seen/heard in a way that is impossible to achieve unless you have more curiosity for fellow humans than this.
an important part of upholding the patriarchy is denigrating men who treat their female partners well
they want to ensure that it isn't considered the standard.
Ring cameras are so lame. Mainly because they reward ppl who want illusion of omnipresence? Bitch, if you’re not there, you don’t get to see it! Fuckin cop cosplay dork. They enrage me.
we piss and moan about the dominance of super hero movies and other nostalgia-driven IP blockbusters but sometimes i think the real glut of the past 15 years has been this kind of blandly "professional" off-the-rack talking head documentary about some recent cultural detritus
Every book you read for pleasure is a victory. You are fighting the idea that education is only worthwhile if it benefits your career, that all your free time should be monetised, and that you should be too busy hustling to nurture your curiosity. Keep reading.
I wrote about the soul-sucking labor of self-promotion and "audience building" that basically every artist/journalist/creative worker has to do now ... unless they are very lucky https://t.co/L3iZwizDlX
In earlier periods of history I would have bravely engaged in civil disobedience against injustice but recently the world evolved into perfect equilibrium so now I’m outraged and disgusted by protesters who break minor laws. Crazy timing, yeah
It’s hilarious to me that the Roman Empire invented soooo many things but they never invented pants. Like they all sat around and thought up aqueducts and surgery but never were able to make any pants