zecgM · 2 days ago"They may as well have attached a sign to the thing saying HERE’S THE GENERIC UNIFYING ECSTATIC RITUAL YOU ORDERED."plus-squaresamkriss.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10
arrow-up15arrow-down1external-link"They may as well have attached a sign to the thing saying HERE’S THE GENERIC UNIFYING ECSTATIC RITUAL YOU ORDERED."plus-squaresamkriss.substack.comzecgM · 2 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
zecgM · 2 days ago"Those of us who are still stuck in these ancient media perceive a world in cultural stasis. But the zombies know better."plus-squaresamkriss.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down12
arrow-up1-1arrow-down1external-link"Those of us who are still stuck in these ancient media perceive a world in cultural stasis. But the zombies know better."plus-squaresamkriss.substack.comzecgM · 2 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
zecgM · 7 days ago“Did previous generations complain about the exact same things?” If the answer is yes, you might have discovered an aspect of human psychology, rather than an aspect of human culture.plus-squarewww.experimental-history.comexternal-linkmessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down10
arrow-up113arrow-down1external-link“Did previous generations complain about the exact same things?” If the answer is yes, you might have discovered an aspect of human psychology, rather than an aspect of human culture.plus-squarewww.experimental-history.comzecgM · 7 days agomessage-square1linkfedilink
zecgM · 7 days ago"OpenAI's team describes the browser as being able to be your "agent", performing tasks on your behalf. But in reality, you are the agent for ChatGPT."plus-squarewww.anildash.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10
arrow-up15arrow-down1external-link"OpenAI's team describes the browser as being able to be your "agent", performing tasks on your behalf. But in reality, you are the agent for ChatGPT."plus-squarewww.anildash.comzecgM · 7 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
zecgM · 10 days agoDavid Foster Wallace reads "Suicide as a Sort of Present," from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.plus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkDavid Foster Wallace reads "Suicide as a Sort of Present," from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.plus-squarewww.youtube.comzecgM · 10 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
zecgM · edit-214 days agoContinual pre-training of 4 LLMs on the junk dataset causes non-trivial declines on reasoning, long-context understanding, safety, and inflating "dark traits" (e.g., psychopathy, narcissism)plus-squarellm-brain-rot.github.ioexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-down1external-linkContinual pre-training of 4 LLMs on the junk dataset causes non-trivial declines on reasoning, long-context understanding, safety, and inflating "dark traits" (e.g., psychopathy, narcissism)plus-squarellm-brain-rot.github.iozecgM · edit-214 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
zecgM · 15 days ago"people think “mental illness,” and they think “drugs,” and these things are true as well, but they are true in part because the constant background noise of life is displacement and fear and loss..."www.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down11
arrow-up14arrow-down1external-link"people think “mental illness,” and they think “drugs,” and these things are true as well, but they are true in part because the constant background noise of life is displacement and fear and loss..."www.cbc.cazecgM · 15 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
zecgM · 15 days ago"I understand now: People crave power and tyranny as they crave sunshine and rain, for the burden of self-awareness feels like pain. At times, even like catastrophe."plus-squarearchive.phexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
arrow-up14arrow-down1external-link"I understand now: People crave power and tyranny as they crave sunshine and rain, for the burden of self-awareness feels like pain. At times, even like catastrophe."plus-squarearchive.phzecgM · 15 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
zecgM · 16 days agoWhy we are getting more stupid | Slavoj Žižek FULL INTERVIEWplus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkWhy we are getting more stupid | Slavoj Žižek FULL INTERVIEWplus-squarewww.youtube.comzecgM · 16 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
zecgM · edit-219 days ago"When someone tells you, "You'd better do what I say or I'm going to burn your house down," and then they burn your house down, you'd be an absolute sucker if you kept up your part of the bargain."plus-squarepluralistic.netexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
arrow-up19arrow-down1external-link"When someone tells you, "You'd better do what I say or I'm going to burn your house down," and then they burn your house down, you'd be an absolute sucker if you kept up your part of the bargain."plus-squarepluralistic.netzecgM · edit-219 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
zecgM · 20 days ago"It seems the exit strategy of our elites will be to offload the cost of this privately owned crypto Ponzi scheme onto the public through government-backed cryptocurrency reserves and other bailouts."plus-squareneofeudalreview.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down11
arrow-up15arrow-down1external-link"It seems the exit strategy of our elites will be to offload the cost of this privately owned crypto Ponzi scheme onto the public through government-backed cryptocurrency reserves and other bailouts."plus-squareneofeudalreview.substack.comzecgM · 20 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
zecgM · 20 days ago"They possess what Rolo Slavsky calls a “krisha”, which is institutional protection. There is no other explanation that makes sense why Tether is still operational today."plus-squareneofeudalreview.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down11
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-link"They possess what Rolo Slavsky calls a “krisha”, which is institutional protection. There is no other explanation that makes sense why Tether is still operational today."plus-squareneofeudalreview.substack.comzecgM · 20 days agomessage-square4linkfedilink
zecgM · 21 days ago"The European way should be: tech with purpose, built on sound engineering, serving democratic values. Not tech policy that undermines the very infrastructure we need to achieve independence."plus-squarewww.process-one.netexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
arrow-up19arrow-down1external-link"The European way should be: tech with purpose, built on sound engineering, serving democratic values. Not tech policy that undermines the very infrastructure we need to achieve independence."plus-squarewww.process-one.netzecgM · 21 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
zecgM · 1 month agoMost banned books of the 2024-25 school year in the U.S., by districtimagemessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down10
arrow-up132arrow-down1imageMost banned books of the 2024-25 school year in the U.S., by districtzecgM · 1 month agomessage-square4linkfedilink
zecgM · 1 month agoThe Normalization of Book Banning - "diverse ideas and stories featuring protagonists from historically marginalized identities are often the first topics targeted by censors."plus-squarepen.orgexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
arrow-up115arrow-down1external-linkThe Normalization of Book Banning - "diverse ideas and stories featuring protagonists from historically marginalized identities are often the first topics targeted by censors."plus-squarepen.orgzecgM · 1 month agomessage-square3linkfedilink
zecgM · 1 month ago"Therapy culture has overprescribed self-obsession to the middle class." (4 minutes video)plus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
arrow-up14arrow-down1external-link"Therapy culture has overprescribed self-obsession to the middle class." (4 minutes video)plus-squarewww.youtube.comzecgM · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
zecgM · 1 month ago“Sideload” is a weird euphemism that the mobile duopoly came up with; it means “installing software without our permission,” which we used to just call “installing software”plus-squaref-droid.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
arrow-up114arrow-down1external-link“Sideload” is a weird euphemism that the mobile duopoly came up with; it means “installing software without our permission,” which we used to just call “installing software”plus-squaref-droid.orgzecgM · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
zecgM · 1 month ago"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"plus-squarepluralistic.netexternal-linkmessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down10
arrow-up134arrow-down1external-link"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"plus-squarepluralistic.netzecgM · 1 month agomessage-square1linkfedilink
zecgM · 2 months agoWitnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campusplus-squaretheonion.comexternal-linkmessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down10
arrow-up112arrow-down1external-linkWitnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campusplus-squaretheonion.comzecgM · 2 months agomessage-square1linkfedilink
zecgM · 2 months ago"People aren’t connecting or conversing on social media like they used to; they’re just wading through slop"plus-squarewww.noemamag.comexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
arrow-up115arrow-down1external-link"People aren’t connecting or conversing on social media like they used to; they’re just wading through slop"plus-squarewww.noemamag.comzecgM · 2 months agomessage-square4linkfedilink
