Hair of the Dawg It’s the final day of Dry January. I tried it, didn’t last. I’m now drinking (again) like a Pan Am pilot in the seventies. Anyway, the 22% of U.S. adults who abstained from alcohol this month will get a personality upgrade just in time for…

As AI serves up certainty like fast food, we're becoming intellectually obese—too full of answers to hunger for deep understanding.

在美国法庭上有个奇特现象，就是中国、印度来的移民，家暴以后被警察抓起来，被检察官起诉。 这些家暴男的一个辩护就是“文化差异”——说他们是被传统文化害了，不知道打老婆犯法。 在一些中国、印度第一代移民聚居的地方，这成了法庭上的一个笑话。

一些专家用中国文化来为独裁辩解，说中国文化有独裁传统，所以中国要独裁才行，不能实行民主，否则就国将不国，民不聊生。 这种辩解跟中国、印度来的渣男拿“文化差异”为打老婆辩解一个道理。 每个国家在历史上都有过独裁传统，不是皇帝，就是国王，这是人类蒙昧时代有过的制度。 但有…

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

Social Brainless Interactive Useful Interwebs Human Connection Human Connection…IN PERSON Kinda Both Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, The Geocities Gallery, The Old Net, and Yesterlinks Explore how the internet used to be, before it corrupted us all. Bored…

DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too.

This surely won't make me seem like a crank.
Further watching:

@HGModernism on addiction to scrolling and the Skinner box mechanism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNOol5OTasw
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As humans move away from the body, machines embrace it.

Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientists

The new digital state of being? Schizoposting. Mania narratives. Hyper-symbolism. Basically, the internet is having a psychotic break, and we’re all in the group chat.