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The inhuman grind within the glowing rectangle

"...creative fields have become dominated and defined by convention and cliché. Distinctiveness has died. In every field we look at, we find that everything looks the same.

"Welcome to the age of average."

alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average

"In contrast, on social networks centered around people and feeds, content recommendations made by machine-learning algorithms sourced from users you don’t know feel out of place, incongruous, interruptive, and sleazy. They feel like what they are: desperate attempts to juice engagement based on a machine’s idea of what you want or need. They feel like ads."

nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/04/why-every-app-now-feels-like-tiktok-but-worse.html

Online alcohol recovery startups: "We're not like Alcoholics Anonymous...at all!"

This is the special Italian fra-gee-lay spaghetti code.

teamhuman.fm/episodes/229-cory-doctorow good listen

I mostly prefer you not open links in new tabs, but the one exception is Twitter, because I so quickly hit cmd+w when I see the Twitter UI

@agiletortoise the sadistic orthodontist I went to as a child played classical music in his office and it ruined classical music for me for life... 😭

Not the first time someone on a call has asked me if I'm sick. I don't know why I lie and say it's allergies. I'm resolving to say, "No this is just my voice," from now on.

~Global warming~
~Climate Change~
The two seasons you actually enjoy are gone and you're left with only the two really crappy ones.