joules77

6 ms·

31.
by joules77 1y ago
I don't understand how Americans on both the left and the right having such strong para-social relationships with their Media Celebs. One would think from all the reactions, Tucker Carlson or Jimmy Kimmel are busy building hospitals, c
32.
by joules77 1y ago
Good. Having grown up in a household with incompatible parents thats a good thing.
33.
by joules77 1y ago
Retirement is a stupid concept. One of my Grandfathers just stopped taking medication and going to the docs. And died quite peacefully within a couple years of retiring. Death and decay is just natural and quick. While my other grandfather
34.
by joules77 1y ago
It's an example of what sociologists call "Compressed Modernity". The Japs jumped from a racist feudal society to a top down American imposed order after the nukes dropped. They have a long way to go to repair that brainfuck.
35.
by joules77 1y ago
Yup the current architecture makes everything about attention. It reduces the difference between who is loosing their mind and who is reaching enlightenment to 0. So everyone living inside that super structure can't tell anything anymo
36.
by joules77 1y ago
Psychosis or Awakening both follow the same steps. Even with Mass psychosis and Mass awakening. Next gen is already pretty anti-reality, cuz of the kind of reality they have been born into. Everything that can be monetized or weaponized has
37.
by joules77 1y ago
It's time to create a separate country like in Sultana's Dream or Herland.
38.
by joules77 1y ago
During the Cold War the Russians were quite happy to fund protests everywhere especially on college campuses which are easy targets. But that was a super power influencing things. This time around its this weird micro nation with 300K peopl
39.
by joules77 1y ago
It's funny cuz I know people who have move to Seoul and are experiencing the "bali-bali" Korean work culture. Corporate wonderland creates trauma world over.
40.
by joules77 1y ago
> Our education system is stuck in the past. We still ask kids to memorize and regurgitate information from textbooks. Well before the internet put the world’s information in our pockets, Albert Einstein urged us “don’t memorize what you
41.
by joules77 1y ago
> I posit that any for-profit social media will eventually degrade into recommendation media over time. For profit social media is totally possible. But a "healthy" version won't happen until govts reform social media such
42.
by joules77 1y ago
No one is getting you physically and mentally tested every 3 months, cause of the time and energy your family and community has put it into raising you or keeping you alive and flourishing into the future. The way Wall Street works has so m
43.
by joules77 1y ago
Social media is over rated. Ask Assange and Snowden. What happens on social media is of the herd, by the herd, for the herd. As Nietzsche would say like organized religion it produces nothing but a herd or slave morality. It will loose stea
44.
by joules77 1y ago
Have you checked why feudalism ended?
45.
by joules77 1y ago
There was no plea in my comment. Was just pointing out their blind spots which they will discover soon enough. But the tech folk here, who are trained to think dashboards, metrics, scale and efficiency are the answer to handling complexity&
46.
by joules77 1y ago
Yarvin is an example of what happens to technical people who spend too much time thinking complex systems can be viewed through a rational lens. If you ask them why things like Morality, Justice, Love, Forgiveness, Beauty, Empathy, Cooperat
47.
by joules77 1y ago
The Germans wiped out 6 million Jews. Why do Israel and Germany get along today?
48.
by joules77 1y ago
Apparently their AI said Zuck himself is the real impediment to super intelligence after seeing Zucks metaverse avatar.
49.
by joules77 1y ago
Thoughts of Xi, page 13 para 44, line 3 - "He who controls the soy sauce, controls the narrative."
50.
by joules77 1y ago
Check out the commie Michael Hudson's - Superimperialism - or - https://michael-hudson.com/2023/07/global-economic-history-i...
51.
by joules77 1y ago
Message may be simple, but reception is not just about fear, because the hardware we have to receive the message is quite a mess. And it has upper limits on how frequently it's beliefs can be updated. Philosophers (and of late Psycholo
52.
by joules77 1y ago
Reminds me. On a Greyhound cross country trip, I got seated next to this pretty, well dressed, middle aged lady, that poor college student me, hardly ever saw on such trips. We start chatting and she tells me she is a Ghost Hunter. I took h
53.
by joules77 1y ago
First world probs. Check who uses Dental Floss in the rest of the world.
54.
Driver's Ed Made Special(timesofisrael.com)
1 points by joules77 1y ago|0 comments
55.
by joules77 1y ago
Experts are regularly stunned by ant hills. That doesn't mean we emulate ants. Subject matter Experts are examples of narrow intelligence. All you have to do is look at how terrified the Chinese are of dealing with any kind of Uncertai
56.
by joules77 1y ago
Use the right browser (not built/funded by ad tech companies) and all Ads can be blocked in 2025.
57.
by joules77 1y ago
They are stupid people who you should stop paying attention too. They buy attention with cash. And the content they generate doesn't have much intellectual or moral value. Techbros barely have contact with normal people, are surrounded
58.
by joules77 1y ago
As if there is no human created social crisis unfolding all the time. That's not interesting. What is interesting is how and why we have survived it through out history.
59.
Stewie and Peter Griffin on Economic Epistemology(independent.org)
1 points by joules77 1y ago|0 comments
60.
by joules77 1y ago
Attention Economy Dynamics in 2025. If they don't capture a share of the finite pool of Attention someone else will. In this case prospective investors, employees, customers etc etc. It's the same logic that drove European colonia

More ›