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'The pretense of many “AI friends” pieces is that it is somehow unprecedented that a consumer product would change how we feel about ourselves, but that is just the premise of consumerism in a nutshell.'
Maybe everyone knows...structural violence...is simply, at this point, the structure of American life, and it is treated as normal
Calm dot com has raised $217 million
Headspace $178 million
I've spent thousands on therapy
@skeletor more effective than all
Friend: "Well, what's interesting is [Huberman] sounds like he's asking questions for himself, related to his [trouble with relationships]."
Me: "'I am an asshole, and all this money and attention is making it worse. Is there a way to fix it without getting rid of the money and attention?'"
"If Substack — and Bluesky, another platform getting a lot of love these days — does not enshittify, that would be a miracle on the order of the loaves and fishes"
so I pop open my RSS reader, see lmika.org/2024/12/05/how-i-ship.html which references my blog as the "via", via blogflock.com/list/Qj5Gq which is sweet and like wow I'm in good company there
nice cosyweb moment. thanks @lmika
...and "feeling that I’ve been falling short in what it takes" is just reality, the sine wave of life. Courage builds, slowly, with each wave
"one of my primary concerns has always been that we not accede to the heedless restructuring of everyday human relations on inappropriate and clumsy models derived from technical systems – and yet, that’s a precise definition of social networking as currently instantiated"
**2007**
speedbird.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/antisocial-networking/
I wonder if some people tire of being unheeded prophets.
"technically-mediated social networking at any level beyond very simple, local applications is fundamentally, and probably persistently, a bad idea. From where I stand, the only sane response is to keep our conceptions of friendship and affinity from being polluted by technical metaphors and constraints"
If you're not already following/participating in the delightful masto-based Advent(ure) by @nash ...you can catch up and start now! :)
