YouTube Poop, Brainrot and Neo-Nihilism in the Hypermedia Era
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YouTube Poop, Brainrot and Neo-Nihilism in the Hypermedia Era
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I’m getting ICE ads, not emails but actual ICE ads, in my GMail inbox now
anger and fear sell.
creation relative to anger and fear is extremely high effort and high agency.
this is why every radical political position can convince millions of people to be angry and afraid but can't convince more than 1% of them to create anything.
short-form content feeds are just an infinite singular video with extremely choppy, random editing, and algorithms tend to make the video styles and topics converge to a fairly limited pool.
YouTube Shorts Feed/TikTok's For You Feed are basically just YouTube Poop with an algo.
if you can sell people a product you can sell people a future
Polymarket has an 83% chance of the shutdown going over 30 days now.
Record is 35 (DJT’s first term) and we’re at 21 days right now
employees who are laid off should be able to sue their employers for materially lying about the financial state of the company before the layoff
straight up a society where your bed is connecting to the cloud and has “disrupted features” when there is a cloud outage is a failing and broken society.
this is rampant consumerism to the point of societal death.
... the amount of time the gov was shut down
on top of, obviously, ending pay for all elected and unelected politicians during the shutdown, I propose that every time the government shuts down, all non-essential workers in the country are awarded PTO from their employers (who receive requisite tax benefits to offset the cost) equal to...
very few localities are directly downstream of discourse. touching grass and talking to normal people makes you realize that 99% of people in your community are 5-10 years behind what is going on.
they're more directly downstream of the effects of tech and politics, but not the information
as GLP-1's have far fewer negative side effects compared to hormonal supplements, and seem to be better regulated
I find it extremely interesting (positive) that it seems like GLP-1's are going to serve as the gateway drug for us to culturally become comfortable with biohacking at large.
I thought it was going to be testosterone or some other PED/hormonal supplement, but this is significantly better
Top single front squat at 220lb after a 4 mile run 🤣
got this bad boy in The Progressive Technologist n*wsl*tter drafts, hoping to have it out this week or next.
download NextDoor.
this is not an advertisement for the app. you need to take a good look around at the society that's around you, and most of you will not go and touch grass to see it for yourself.
you would be shocked at just how behind the average person is on media literacy, tech literacy, etc
... escape velocity, etc.
memetics is just information theory for people who spend too much time on Twitter.
there's nothing special about "memetic information" compared to other information. information spaces can be manipulated, ... culture/sub-culture can create viral information types that are more prone to attaining...
just finished this book.
phenomenal. lots of important historical lessons to be learned from this book. lessons that are directly applicable to today.
broke: trolling is making the internet worse and is ruining discourse
woke: trolling is a form of discourse and is often a very fair response to conversations that deserve very little more than ridicule and disinterest
reminder: not every topic of conversation is deserving of debate or air time.
there's a direct lineage that can be drawn from:
YouTube Poop, to
The Lazar Collection/Stick Figures on Crack, to
Short form Vine and early TikTok memes, to
Channer and TPOT meme culture, to
neo-YTP/neo-Dadaist Zoomer memes like Italian Brain Rot and Skibidi Toilet
and that lineage is important.
broke: “those day in the life of an engineer videos are stupid because they’re being lazy and not doing anything! I work 80 hours a week!”
woke: “we should strive for more people to have more free time and enjoyment in their day to day”
"it's like using an F-35 as a coffee table" is a phrase Somewheresy used in the @concept.country group chat and I can't stop thinking about how applicable that is to so many tech systems we have today
a picture is worth a thousand words.
it really is incredible how intuitive Blender is as a software. I am functionally a 3D modeling idiot when it comes to Blender and I was able to whip up this planter model for a game I'm working on in less than 10 minutes.
it's basic but even just to get something super simple done, it was v fast.
game dev is awesome (for me) because it takes me back to square 0.
I know nothing.
this means that being able to spin around a little capsule with two twig arms feels cool.
Makerlog for the week of 14 October
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picked up a new drawing tablet (my old one both broke and was incredibly large and clunky) that I'm kinda hyped to use for a few projects
