2024-12-04 ┃ edited ┃ RE: futurebird
Maybe it’s better to just dress in silence.
To be alone with my own thoughts (scary) and, since Randall is a human, and he can’t make 20 videos a day for me to watch, just sit down and watch the single video and be happy with that.
It is criminal (and a loss) to treat the interesting seeming noise of the content farm slop on equal footing with a scripted and researched bit of pop science with animations.
There are people who really hope we don’t care and can’t tell the difference.
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@futurebird I'll put stuff on in the background when I play video games. A lot of the time, I'll just rewatch the same media. I've seen the Folding Ideas Line Goes Up / The Future Is a Dead […]
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This is where I seem to be headed. I love learning things and enjoying people's creations and thoughts, but silence is so, so much better than slop.
I now seek out media more […]
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there have always been corporations and propagandists trying to take advantage of partial attention to manipulate people. It's particularly insidious because in many situations, […]
@futurebird There’s also the alternative of podcasts, where flesh and blood middle aged middle class white men who weren’t beaten down enough by reality as children expose their unhinged levels […]
@futurebird well, I don't know if it's interesting to you given your lack of discussion about the subject, but a channel called Driving 4 Answers is a favorite - he details the workings of […]
@futurebird I feel like there are two points here. One, it's okay to not give all your attention to something, if you feel like it doesn't diminish the value much. Two, we should be intentional […]
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