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Spies on Pegasus watching world leaders phones feeds like

It must be fascinating/disturbing these days. I can’t wait for the upcoming Netflix Real Reels or whatever.

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Active Meditation

“Meditation is an incredible tool (even if my own report says otherwise) to connect with this world on an entirely different wavelength.”

I have never meditated in my life. But I play my bass daily since the mid 90s.

I wouldn’t be able to stop ever, I think.

It does make me connect to this world on an entirely different wavelength. In the deepest moments of concentration when improvising, when my eyes are closed and my fingers know three to five steps in advance what to do?

It’s indescribable. It feels like I am One with Everything.

I’d always laugh reading musicians speak about that type of thing. A stereotype, indeed. But then you reach that level of expertise and you can only be quiet about it. Because it’s that overwhelming and intense and so serene.

Fun fact: brainwaves are going from 1 to 150Hz and bass guitar is about 40 to 400Hz. I wonder if they synchronize and/or harmonize.

Anyway I always, always need a good ten minutes to get my brain back to being able to activate speech.

Because playing a musical instrument makes me feel like jumping from stars the size of atoms to the size of actual stars, with a grappling hook. I told you, it’s indescribable.

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smdh

What in the FFFF???? This is an actual picture of Liz Cambage:

I know what the email tried to do; it’s true that the WNBA advertises its league with white women —Stewart, EDD, Taurasi— despite the fact that the WNBA is 75% black.

So the email is trying hard to project the “see??? We LOVE black women in the WNBA!! We celebrate them!!” 

By doing the worst Photoshop job I’ve seen in ages, to one of its best player, gotcha. *thumbs up*

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Number one

It’s the main pattern online these days: how to moderate a wild or getting wilder, crowd. From any online game, to all the video-based websites to social media, the need to moderate is unprecedented.

Yet, it is almost impossible to do a great job.

Few and weak moderation tools allow abuse. A lot of powerful moderation tools allow abuse as well.

I fail to see how this is going to play outside of a totalitarian solution, which we should probably avoid?

This is intense. There’s so much at stake.

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Plot twist, the earth is finite

“Resources are not limited. Only human knowledge is limited.”

I see where it’s coming from: human beings have been pushing so hard for so long. Sometimes it does seem that we do not have any limit. Who would have thought WiFi would be a thing –wireless computer network when you need one cable to be connected?- AND be so ubiquitous in the early stages of the internet mid 90s? Not a single soul. Wireless data transfer sounded like goddamn science-fiction. We’re amazing.

Yet, our world is finite. There’s something, at some point, that just blocks us. Earth’s gravity. Oil supply. Radio frequency. I know, humans are absolutely fabulous at squeezing shit out. Moore’s law is kind of dead but we’re still hitting the 2nm process by uh, squeezing again. And lying (the process is not really 2nm).

That’s the whole point this article ignores: humanity has been squeezing everything for the past few decades. The squeezing has become harder and harder if not totally impossible by now. We’re squeezing so much, we have to lie now. Fracking is good! Slavery in Congo or China to make batteries for our devices doesn’t exist!

That’s not a good sign for the next twenty years, at all.

People just don’t get how much bigger our global economy is compared to twenty years ago, and how exponential our resources digging has gone. We’re gargantuans eating this planet and ourselves alive.

Now grown folks seriously talking about “it’s fine, we’ll mine the rest of the galaxy then” when space is the most hostile environment ever? I mean. Sure, go ahead.

The "fuck it we’ll figure it out later (when I’m dead)" argument from very smart people makes me think that they’re not very smart people. Frustrating because they’re running us into the ground.

Earth demands that we consume less and redistribute better. The end.

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Night of the Comet

I adore looking at 80s/90s Los Angeles in movies and shows. Night of the Comet—I enjoyed it!— has some nice views of DTLA, back when skyscrapers were rare and more special because of it.

Low-rise. Flat. Hot. Chill. Empty spaces. Urban playgrounds have always attracted me. I blame growing up in the grass. And skateboarding.

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lol @jack

“The days of Usenet, IRC, the web… even email (with PGP)… were amazing,” Jack Dorsey said in a tweet over the weekend. “Centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet. I realize I’m partially to blame, and regret it.”

Bro you don’t regret anything. It was obvious in the late 2000s that centralizing discovery and identity into corporations was going to damage the internet.

It was crystal clear that Twitter should basically become a protocol, just like HTML5 or IMAP, to continue being great.

You don’t regret it. You’re smart. You knew. You’re just now realizing how responsible you are for making Twitter less useful year after year, while allowing so much abuse that some people died.

You’re feeling guilty about it, as you should.

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Jungle Vibes

Some 177bpm bass for your senses.

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Is this a pandemic?

This is why people get fed up with the media. Two years, a million dead and you come up with this headline? That’s pretty outrageous.

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Digg

I like to scroll Reddit here and there and it always makes me think of Digg, because it’s the exact clone. For some reason though I never ever hear about Digg, even in nostalgia-filled culture.

Digg was huge during the mid-2000s. People will say that Reddit is way bigger now, but they forget that the entire web is WAY bigger now, too.

Digg was about as big as Reddit is today in terms of influence towards dorks, nerds and geeks. But also, it was a rather brand new concept.

The voting system hadn’t really existed at that scale on the internet before. It attracted millions of folks, curating pretty well discussions, as we know.

Living in France at that time, for the first time ever online there was a platform with interesting content and tons of people reacting to it. Just like Reddit later, comments quickly became what Digg was all about.

I learned so much about US/UK/AUS culture. Vocabulary, idioms, places, etc. It was so interesting and I laughed so much at comment threads. I remember a few times absolutely rolling on the floor. You know, when your sides hurt so much you keep whining “stahhhp, just staaahp”. It was addictive.

Then the HD-DVD key thing happened. I have screenshots of my old Netvibes page.

It was WILD. They started moderating heavily and that was a wrap. Reddit looked like a terrible clone and I became one of those Digg refugees. Reddit was so raw and poor at that time, it wasn’t looking like it would become the behemoth it became.

But here we are with the same dorks, nerds and geeks albeit more international now. Same social patterns.

And the same questions.