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19 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
fascinating how the normal people online hivemind “frenzied caring” can be hyper selectively deployed. for years i begged people irl to consider environmental impact of phones, streaming, but suddenly everyones up in arms about some blockchain tech (look at all the replies here)
i had to be on the tail end of getting a smartphone (2015/16). everyone had one. when theyd ask why i didnt if i brought up anything ethical their brains just totally shut down. never got one intelligent response. now the hive wants to care about cryptos impact. organically. sure
i fought being forced into cyber dystopia every step of the way. i was walked out on the plank via saber. kids in africa mining iphone metals, toxic waste, netflix energy use, i had the charts and articles. but now crypto is here and its time to pump the brakes. thats interesting
woah woah woah. now that outcast nerds are finally monetizing “being too online” (reparati0ns for internet col0nization), now that some tech is maybe potentially threatening to disrupt certain industries, now reddit wants to be tech skeptical. now we have to be careful. ok. sure.
“hey if nobody minds id like to suddenly adopt a radical ecological stance where the planet is 100% dying that doesnt require me to do anything drastic or change lifestyles but allows me to control what other people are doing in a way that maintains a status quo”

yeah go for it

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20 Mar
listening to npr on a drive, which i only do accidentally or when i feel i owe some suffering as penance, is like a masterclass in how a rhetoric-slug can attach to ur brain and burrow in so deep that youre talking for hours without ever saying anything or answering any questions
yesterday this guy was on, talking about some movie streaming service taking down some movie or something because it was now deemed culturally insensitive. and the “interviewer” asks, “some people are going to have a problem with this, what would your response be to them?”
and he says “yeah some people are going to say this is cancel culture, but nothing is being cancelled, we’re just adding a warning to the start of the video and educating people about what the movie actually contains”. cant even tell if its intentional or not but look at maneuver
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18 Mar
worth considering in general how many groups, movements, things have gotten their name from an attempted insult given to them by a detractor. often when attempting to disparage something u unintentionally highlight the positive essence of the thing. a dangerous game historically
i suspect this is because a person or group labeling themselves is restrained by some sense of modesty or not “trying too hard” but when you as an outsider insult them you arent restrained by anything and can just lift up the premise of the thing in a unique way that others cant
i have mostly experienced things in this way. one time a guy said, about some aspect of my vibe (something like) “this guy is like if rene guenon made garfield comics” or something. and i disagree but at the same time that is epic. i would read that comic, obviously.
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18 Mar
lol
dont restrain the naturally spontaneous and radiant state of ur mind brother
people trying to insult me accidentally giving me great compliments case #372493
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16 Mar
im looking at japanese league baseball hats. i can only assume this is my mid life crisis. reasoning forward from this, i must be halfway through my life. im okay with this
just the name “hiroshima carp” is really working on multiple aesthetic levels for me rn. the whales logo is kind of suburban dad vaporwave (rare vibe)
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found car keys in a field while walking my dog. it had a clicker, to my surprise i heard the car beep in the distance. followed its quack into a parking lot. there it was, success. but now what. if i leave the keys here, the car is more unsafe than ever. here i stand, paradox man
doing a little spatial semiotics to determine it would definitely be weird to put the keys into the car. doing a little situational awareness testing to wonder if, upon discovering that their keys were missing, someone would look, under their car, or on their car tire. perhaps.
i could leave a note, but its raining. is this presumptuous, to then assume that they would walk the actually quite far distance in the rain to re-obtain their keys? or is the note a signature of me taking on this yoke, saying that i will be the one to return in the rain. perhaps
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there was always “high culture” and “low culture”. now theres no more “high culture”, this distinction has not only been erased but intentionally flipped as academia and former cultural citadels aggressively pander and try to be cool by studying what always was “low culture”.
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