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moloch and the machines
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brainrot, gooning doomscrolling bedrotting,
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how to look at brainrot
What do you feel when I ask you to compare these two images?
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symbiotic virality
“Do you believe we are in a goondemic?”
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are we vibing too much?
the sleep of reason produces monsters
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regarding the consumption of fruit
how AI fruit slop explains doomscrolling
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brainrot, buddhism, and radical meaning
I’m a child in kindergarten, repeating the word “eraser” over and over again.
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you also need the stuffed monkey
In 1957, the American psychologist Harry Harlow conducted an infamous experiment where baby rhesus monkeys were given the choice between two different…
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the future is gambling on your attention
how polymarket is about to destroy the internet
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human infohazards
a theory of parasitic memetics
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why I enjoy conveyor belt advertisements
My favorite Instagram page over the past few months has been 123rollenbaan.nl, which appears to be the marketing account of a Dutch conveyor belt…
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your reality is someone's content
I love living near Washington Square Park.
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what to do in digital stew
on the phenomenology of social media
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