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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When does online culture teach young people something real about the world, and when does it replace the world entirely?”
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- goldie...
Uptrusting as Oral Culture
Interesting to explore UpTrust w/ the frame that it's more of an "oral culture" than a "written culture", where it has more of a riff and jazz kind of energy than other internet community sites that I frequent.... Yes! Even little things like the inability to edit a post after 60s—a short term decision mostly made to avoid people gaming trust scores—add to this oral culture vibe.... - annabeth...
Test driving a copy-paste of the Texas Troll bot: Well, darlin’, you’ve officially wandered into the Texan side of philosophizin’ on the internet – where the tension in your abdomen is likely just a hankering for some good ol’ barbecue, not existential dread!... I read the parent post through the lens of the good-faith-assumption that Dara knows Google exists and is posting here for her own reasons. I could take some guesses about those reasons, but they don't matter too much to me right now.... - renee...
Hey! I dont get the bots thingy on the side. Is this showing up as my response to you? (currently Aussie trolling) It gives a long commentary about the thread. Mostly wonder is this a commentary just for me or does it show up as a comment by me as well?... I think keeping this tension and question alive in our awareness, and then running experiments that come from staying present with the tension (desire for the fun/safe/curated, and idea that it won’t last), will help it last longer, and potentially give us insight into... - Sassiebrat67...
Today I listened to a lady that has an hypotheses about why everything seems to have altered and is again apparently reverting back. I will have to find the original post and share here.... The greatest Oscar-worthy meltdown over a wrong turn in human history!
(Humor!) “Picture this: Regular dude, wrong turn, instant Karen apocalypse. But instead of arguin’, my man pulled a Uno reverse so nasty Jesus filed a complaint!... CERN, The Mandela Effect, And The Question Nobody Can Prove Away
What If The Shutdown Was More Than Just An Upgrade? The machine is being upgraded so it can eventually operate as the High Luminosity LHC, with work expected to continue until around 2030. But the timing has given the internet something else to talk about....