What the "unplug for self-care" crowd doesn't get is that you are part of a Giant Social Computer in the Cloud (GSCITC) computing the future. The level and latency at which you consume information and act on it determines your "job" in the social computer. Your shitposting and FOMO are functional.
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No matter how brilliant the output of the collective intelligence/group mind -- and at its best Twitter in particular can be sublime in its sum-greater-than-parts output -- there is no easy way to disentangle and proudly claim your contribution to the distributed computation.
https://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/against-waldenponding?e=[UNIQID]
me: wow these frustrating RDR2 hunting request missions basically require me to learn to recognize bird species by their songs, and thus creates a more visceral sense of earned outdoorsmanship than I expected
https://kontextmaschine.tumblr.com/post/180641674508/me-wow-these-frustrating-rdr2-hunting-request
