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by pnexk 9d ago
This concept of lack of boreness along with mention of studies was covered in a book called The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter (2021) that made me think about it a lot since I came across it. Amazing to see someone organically mention the
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by pnexk 2mo ago
I also strongly think there is a decline (demand?) in appreciation for such art. Even something not critically acclaimed or featured in the prestigious (think something more regional or local) may very well go underneath unnoticed and dismi
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by pnexk 3mo ago
In a similar vein, one of my favorite HN comments in the context of the modernist movement. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27243252
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by pnexk 3mo ago
Sounds like South Africa possibly.
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by pnexk 3mo ago
Another example of how we’re all collectively becoming worse at properly reading and parsing longer text. Really does make me wonder about backtracking on our breakthroughs in literacy rates.
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by pnexk 4mo ago
I wish there was an article on this matter that wasn’t written like a capitalist industrial consumer taste manufacturing piece. Takes longer to get to the point too, but that’s just me.
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by pnexk 4mo ago
TFA’s author notes they’ve watched Adam Curtis’s Hypernormalization. As someone who is vary of his Century of Self documentary, I think it’s worth remembering how deceptive visual mediums can be. It’s not that textual arguments and essays c
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by pnexk 5mo ago
Hit the nail on the head with that framing. So many articles are now coming out addressing the anxieties about adoption of a new technology, but we genuinely don’t really need it as a society. I still wonder if we really needed the iPhone o
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by pnexk 5mo ago
It is also the case that PCs are still more expensive than phones. Had a work colleague in one of my first customer facing service jobs who relied almost completely on an android phone to get everything done from mortgage applications to en
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by pnexk 6mo ago
You created this account exclusively to articulate transphobic misinformation?
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by pnexk 7mo ago
true. This is a good essay but there’s, as to be expected, not too much of an acknowledgement of the economic and political backdrop of the arena this played out in. A lot of discussions of this essay therefore get diluted into musings abou
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by pnexk 7mo ago
I’d wish for a more pointed rebuttal than merely a post complaining that the writer now sucks on here. It seems substantial to a degree of a post to me at least even if not whole in its conclusions.
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by pnexk 7mo ago
Helpful type of nagging for me. Most here would agree they are not a positive aspect of the modern digital experience, calling it out gently without hostility is not bad. It might not be quite self policing but some of that with good reason
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by pnexk 7mo ago
Clearly an AI bot posting slop. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753519 being another example. I wonder if there’s known ideas on how to protect the quality of discourse on here from this type of intrusion :<
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by pnexk 7mo ago
Firsthand evidence of AI bot accounts posting slop on here/astroturfing I suppose.
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by pnexk 7mo ago
Tangentially, I think that the “excuse” for these platforms that they need to make money enabled a lot of the current dystopian level of ad tracking. Network effects be damned, we should all be a little more willing to pay to be part of pla
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by pnexk 8mo ago
On the contrary, it being published in 2012 makes it feel a little closer to 20th century mode of traditional media cultural criticism which felt a little more grounded than it is now in established media. It’s also interesting for me becau
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What's Wrong with NIH Grants?(statecraft.pub)
2 points by pnexk 8mo ago|0 comments
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by pnexk 8mo ago
> This is a large, obvious, mistake. It seems quite rational a response to the decisions taken by a larger neighboring nation’s state unexpectedly increasing hostility.
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by pnexk 1y ago
Would also recommend the Moody's Talks podcast led by Mark Zandi, the Moody's Analytics chief economist. He's been more or less talking about this for months now and sounded the alarm much earlier than others about this prosp
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by pnexk 1y ago
I think this is covered in Micheal Easter’s notion that as societies become more comfortable, our brains lower the threshold of what constitutes a “problem” in our lives. We’re wired not only to be great at problem solving but also discover
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How Metamodernism Makes Meaning(medium.com)
2 points by pnexk 5y ago|0 comments
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by pnexk 5y ago
First off, I think you're a bit convoluted with your timeline with modernism and postmodern. Most of what you seem to criticize seem to be related to postmodern sensibilities, rather than modernist one. Modernism attempted to make new,
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Play store app able to intercept “clear data” command(reddit.com)
1 points by pnexk 5y ago|0 comments
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by pnexk 5y ago
I meant my response generally since you listed some thinkers I'm more familiar with. For Heidegger, perhaps you would find this overview (and related videos) interesting for some context: https://youtu.be/eDAyhsZ-Gs4
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by pnexk 5y ago
>So what is the value of such work, which is so open to interpretation that 100 years later you will find diametrically opposed takes on its meaning? Different takes to make sense of complex phenomena happen in many fields. It's not
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by pnexk 5y ago
Discord does the same when you open the electron inspect element panel with F12. Wonder how much that's helped as well
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by pnexk 5y ago
rather related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27555563
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by pnexk 5y ago
You're getting repeatedly downvoted but I think you have a point here that could have been articulated with less snobbery. There's many folks here who grew up on videogames and most likely find it to have been a vehicle for meanin
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Mate Selection for Modernity(quillette.com)
6 points by pnexk 5y ago|2 comments

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