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Gov Cox..he seems like one of the nicer Republicans. He reminds me of the Republicans I have met irl..different views but generally nice people.
He is not wrong about social media or the net.
I downloaded and read parts of The Society of the Spectacle on a rec from this journalist I respect called Yasha Levine and it really fits what politics is by now and it’s so bad for reality:
https://files.libcom.org/files/The%20Society%20of%20the%20Spectacle%20Annotated%20Edition.pdf
It certainly explains why irl conflicts are so much rarer than they are online. And irl there is usually some dispute over specific tangible issues-say property rights or men being creeps.
Almost all of my ire is directed at specific wealthy creeps who are trying to (in my book) make free with my stuff. Wtf..I am not a bloody oligarch. I can’t afford that..
But the riling up for no reason is a gift of social media which I agree is a cancer. Ai angers me. It will pick up where social media left off..I saw this thing in Quanta Magazine that was kinda cool..Ai designing physics experiments. I didn’t read it with care but unlike chatbots, that actually looked like cool and realistic use of Ai. I think “brain rot” is likely to become the overused catchphrase of the year..well
I am taking a holiday from the net and cloistering myself up with work, books, my garden and birds and not thinking about the net or rubbish like ai/politics for a few months. Though I may pop on rarely if the sky falls or something..
I wrote a bunch in my journal just in case I ever need it for a complaint.
Maybe not..but I hate being annoyed in my home. I mean come on…I already put up with hideous crap outside my home in societies whose tastes, inclinations and impulses on average make scant sense anywhere. And try to find some common ground. But my home is the one place I go to in order to avoid most people and it really ticks me off when there’s some inexplicable, annoying new drivel in one’s own damn home. Yeesh. Anyway I deleted or will delete any internet trollish posts.
I just keep these in case some day I need them legally -I don’t know some sort of prisoner’s dilemma- I have no patience with the social web or the line between anonymous internet use and one’s actual life blurring. It’s really annoying and creepy for the most part and really annoying-the lack of any sort of sane regulatory structure in this hyperlibertarian creepscape
But I didn’t and don’t want to contribute to the spectacle and will take down any needless vituperations.
Sometimes if I get started on the contemporary tech environment…eh it’s the net..
The thing is while I always liked science, I just use tech-computers, phones, internet, social media-these are the least interesting and most boring uses of tech. I hate having a phone..that means people can reach you and probably make extortionate demands for unclear reasons ha ha ;-/. I an so glad I am anon. I sp don’t get people who are on social media under their own identities..
The internet is dying..wth is an influencer? That’s not a thing..she got it (she’s also from the old school net) so 20 years ago. I have posted it elsewhere but it really gets it:
https://plork.blogspot.com/2005/09/i-am-become-famous.html?m=1
Now everyone wants to be “famous”. Wth? Not irl. Whatever you do online you can’t bring Facebook to people’s lives and streets. That’s weird and creepy. Some sort of world citizen? That would be crazy.
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