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The typical American devotes more than 1500 hours a year to his [or her] car; thus it takes this American 1500 hours to go 6000 miles (in the course of a year). (ecologise.in)
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A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team - derp.foo (derp.foo)
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Legal Lullabies (www.zzzuckerberg.com)
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Design Thinking “really belongs in business schools, where they teach marketing and other forms of moral depravity.” (sts-news.medium.com)
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“The tragedy of revolutions lies in the fatal metamorphosis that drives them from liberation to the struggle for survival, and finally to the edification of a new oppressive rule" (thebaffler.com)
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Werner Herzog on Chickens (www.youtube.com)
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GIGOGBI (Garbage In, Garbage Out, Garbage Back In) is a system for concentrating bias. Even trace amounts of bias in the training data get refined and magnified... (pluralistic.net)
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this style of criticism infantilizes its audience members by assuming they are essentially ideology-processing machines—unlike the wise commentator who somehow manages to see through the deception. (www.theatlantic.com)
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This is the reason that automakers are willing to enshittify their products so comprehensively: they were one of the first industries to decouple rents from profits. (pluralistic.net)
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desperately poor people walked among the ruins of buildings, made of material they could not reproduce and constructed in ways they could not comprehend (www.discoursemagazine.com)
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Americans spend on average 5 hours and 30 minutes daily of screen time on their computers, tablets and phones […] But when we add other media like TV and films [...] nearly ten hours a day (slimemoldtimemold.com)
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A ball will bounce; but less and less. (www.poemhunter.com)
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Physicality got a bad rap in the past. It used to be that the physical was contrasted with the spiritual. But now that we have information technologies, we can see that materiality is mystical. (archive.li)
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Because of this power to awaken unenlightened beings, Kunley's penis is referred to as the "Thunderbolt of Flaming Wisdom" (en.wikipedia.org)
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Curation is the internet’s community paradigm in a servitude relationship with the information paradigm (staltz.com)
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The real problem is just the lack of alignment these articles have with search intent— if you want people to land on your site and remember you favorably, you should just answer their question. (www.izzy.co)
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It reminds me of the Freudian theory of humor. Something that is funny represents a forbidden thought that gets past the censor. These logical paradoxes are cognitively traumatic experiences. (1981) (archive.is)
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This Is How I Know Society Is Collapsing (thelastpsychiatrist.com)
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just as the marketplace has co-opted rebel­lion by subordinating politics to fashion, by making anger chic, so it has qui­etly underwritten the idea of leisure, in part by separating it from idleness. (www.molvray.com)
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“We’re not in the music space,” Spotify’s chief executive John Seabrook, announced several years ago; “we’re in the moment space.” (www.thedriftmag.com)
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As a political formula, the romantic libertarianism that the computer culture offers as an alternative is as powerful as it is wrong-headed (www.uvm.edu)
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Frantic activity as a defense against impotence. There is a term for that, but you can bet your career it won't be on the test. (thelastpsychiatrist.com)
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most of the time, warming just makes everything slightly shittier (www.theguardian.com)
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as “entertainment platforms” envelop our lives, television’s mandates will continue to warp genuine expression and political debate into little more than amusing diversions (hedgehogreview.com)
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