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AbigailAmpersand's avatar

"Groggily, I'll scroll..." is all he needed to say, really. Everything else is superfluous. Music can be lovely in a quiet morning but I think he blew it - the liminal state - as soon as he put his AirPods in.

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Henry Oliver's avatar

Exactly so

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News Do's avatar

😁

The human is safer if he/she isn’t scrolling through one-sided information curated and promulgated by apple news and other skewed, highly one-sided, questionable mind control media.

Drop the media, think critically, analyze, reflect, and question those media when you encounter them.

But, in the meantime, smell the roses, question the blight, and head for the sunshine.

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Ephie's avatar

Good stuff Henry.

I am so tired of the bitching about algorithms, as if they deprive you of your agency.

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Shadow Journal Dispatch's avatar

Good question. Isn't this the question we've been asking from the dawn of time, long before chatgpt or ai? Haven't we been asking what is an effective use of time means in the span of a single lifetime? Thoughts I was having this morning, ironically while I was scrolling my phone.

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DJ's avatar

Eh, I see this not as a self-help piece but as a description of how a lot of people live now.

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Gaye Ingram's avatar

"Corny": now that's a word we need to retrieve. So many applications, so few popular words that fit them.

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R. Chavez's avatar

1) This is why we need print newspapers! No algorithm shifting while you read.

2) The Rookie is awesome. At least until Season 3 😁

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Dylan's avatar

What most kills me when I read pieces about the influence of tech./how distracting it is, is how it seems people have forgotten THEY actively choose how to spend their time - as you mention. It’s never that complicated, but it is a matter of desire.

I didn’t get better at this until I wanted a deeper experience, took responsibility & raised my standards.

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Nathan Keller's avatar

Yup. Wake up and if am firing on two or three cylinders I read and take notes about any new phenomena in evidence. In how much as everything takes time that take slightly nore than a third of the minutes blocked in to prepare my tools and my wits to exit and attack my job(longtime ) housepainting. But world suffering is this man's job? Well no of course it is his primarily vicarious alphabet of neologisms. Today did the math and it looks like John Gray has done only 3 of his books clarifying the morning landscape into today, yesterday, and tomorrow's tragedies. All are compelling,. But specially the one that particularly impugns your blanknesses, failure of scale by these lights. On world scales,. We count if we stand for the arbitrary resistance to commerce-unbound that a weeping person does. You do not get there with crocodile tears.

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JulesLt71's avatar

First person to write a book called ‘Ultra Processed Content’ has a best-seller on their hands.

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Michael Nath's avatar

Cf the Laputans -- at least they needed sacks for their thoughts (rather than a 5oz phone).

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