runner up: immediately lost in the woods. starves, dies.
second runner up: i drink too much ale or whatever ghastly substance they are serving and i start running my mouth about the internet and am immediately burned alive
any way you slice it i'm gonna get myself killed in under 48 hrs
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the only thing i can think about with the gamestop thing is that there are so many elements of modern life that can be manipulated (for good or ill) if enough ppl are able to commandeer enough attention. and we have so many ways for normal ppl to gather attention at scale now
like...it seems like whether its 'memeing a president into existence' or qanon or meme stocks or whatever...they're all just examples of similar destabilizing dynamics of scale. but what's interesting is i don't think most ppl realize how powerful this is yet
(not like each individual example...just the dynamics)
it is sort of hard for me to comprehend how much time i've spent thinking about this man and this tool/website. and it is not a thing that exists anymore. wow.
maybe this is a me thing but anyone else notice that their text histories w/ their partner during the pandemic are bizarre. It used to be...conversation! now it's just like contextless recipe links & peculiar life detritus bc we've been in the same space for 9 months straight
you don’t have to retweet our lame duck president for many reasons but especially because he lost and it’s over and he’s a lame duck president and did i mention he lost the election and will no longer be president?
imo what is way more fun than dunking on the lame duck president is treating him like the lame duck president that he is
reading this makes me just achingly sad. i get concerns about shutdowns and fears about the economy. i get that this feels unfair and oppressive and painful. i am scared & sad, too. but the anti-mask behavior is effectively holding the country hostage to score culture war points
i've reached the point where i don't know what to do about any of it. there are so many heroic healthcare workers who are ringing the alarm bell as loud as they can. they're saying we're entering a living nightmare that could dwarf the spring. we seem determined to ignore them
i spent 3 weeks this summer talking to people about the best way to reach anti-maskers. and how to treat people with empathy and dignity. but when this becomes wrapped up in political identity it seems almost impossible to bridge the gap. dunno what to do nytimes.com/2020/07/22/opi…