As with the previous acc, don't hesitate to reach out to vent, share a joke, talk shit(not about Thallumaala, but even that's fine lol), or want to anything else. You're not alone
@kiwiprotato Yeah that feels true to me as well as there's been nothing major. But I feel there's an insane amount of rough play that's not even getting a foul called
Meta’s AI glasses are one of the company’s most successful products in years. They offer genuine utility, with a direct way for users to interact with its AI. But people have long been wary of smart glasses—especially when face recognition is involved.
Here’s @boztank on Meta's NameTag feature, which identifies faces and alerts the glasses wearer when it detects someone they know. https://t.co/1rbeoWP9e5
Produced by @atlanticrethink, The Atlantic's creative marketing studio.
The world wants me to die.
My incurable disease diagnosis became global news. It was omnipresent on social media and 1,900 articles were written in a matter of days.
Many were saddened.
However, joy dominated the commentary.
People pointed to schadenfreude, the pleasure of another's failure. Yes, there’s that. There is a special place in people’s hearts that loves to see others fail, especially when that person’s presence threatens their own psychological stability in some way or helps them feel better about themselves.
But, if you look over the social media commentary about me, you’ll see that pattern:
“he deserved it.”
I deserved it because I challenged death. The crowd was running a deeply rooted psychological script that represents the oldest, most deeply embedded stories of human culture.
This was the first story ever written down, 4,000 years ago. Gilgamesh sought eternal life after losing someone he loved, only to have the plant of youth stolen by a serpent as he bathed. Leaving him to accept his mortality.
Asclepius became so skilled at rejuvenation that he raised the dead. As punishment, Zeus struck him down with a thunderbolt to enforce life and death authority.
This is the story of Jesus. Pontius Pilate offered a choice between a thief and the immortalist, and the crowd demanded the execution.
People need this story conclusion to keep themselves sane. The challenger must lose and the loss must appear deserved. It’s a shield of self preservation.
For if death is inevitable, their existence and that of their loved ones is justified and unavoidable. If death is not inevitable, nothing about their reality is safe.
I occupy the same philosophical and archetypal position as Gilgamesh, Asclepius and Jesus.
This statement will draw outrage and accusations of blasphemy, hubris and narcissism. Nevertheless, it’s the pattern that has repeated itself for thousands of years.
Death has been the omnipresent concern of the human race. It encapsulates our greatest fears, joy and curiosities. The discourse around it changes over time; however, the fundamentals remain unchanged.
What’s different about this moment, that is unlike any other moment, is that physical death may no longer be inevitable.
What if I didn’t deserve it?
And what if I am your ally, and not a threat?
Violence bad. Let's write a stern email and the current power structures will magically crumble and then we wouldn't have to build up and expend any force to keep things that way
Let's smash the state and wank around when the US and the bourgeoisie come for us in every way imaginable. Let's press the big red button that says communism and screw ourselves when we discover we aren't an autarky
Kinda sucks how the popular conception of socialism is just a capitalist state with welfare programs and minority protections, instead of actual socialism where we smash the state and replace it with one that abolishes capitalism entirely while also doing the other two things.
Let's also shit on anyone who tries to do a managed transition or anything other than immediately jumping to the end goal in order to satisfy folks who are nowhere near gaining power and have the luxury of having their pure ideals untainted by reality