i still think about how hilarious it is that Mark Zuckerberg changed the name of his entire company and spent $46 billion on “the metaverse” only for no one to care and those that did care back then have just moved on to AI
/tweets
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we really need more social media features that allow people to exist in-between the binaries of “public” and “private”
i want to be accessible and findable, but sometimes would prefer if people outside a certain sphere (or those in other spheres!) would be less likely to see what i post
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feature idea: reverse mute
hide your account from showing up in peoples’ feeds programmatically based on keywords in their bios, types of accounts they follow, or lists they are in, etc
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everyone is constantly saying “dating apps suck”, so the past few months i’ve taken it upon myself to see if the alternatives are better…
tonite i’m going to another speed dating event — the 1st was fun, but it didn’t seem better than using an app… figured i should at least give it 1 more shot tho
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people outsourced their exploration and curation to algorithms run by megacorps for so long that they forgot they could do those things themselves
it’s hard to blame them though, as vast amounts of resources are being expended to convince them to stay inside the walled garden
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the internet didn’t become boring or stale overtime… most people just got lazy and prefer to lounge apathetically on their digital couches (social media feeds) all day
surfing the web is still loads of fun if you take the time to do it
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i wish there were hot are.na singles in my area
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happy thanksgiving everyone!
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imagining a future state in which people will be clamoring to have their content trained on by AI and that not having your content trained on will be an indicator that it isn’t notable or interesting (not totally dissimilar to how most people want to be ranked in google search)
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Top 10 favorite TV shows
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how many pinned tabs do you usually have and what are they? i’ve had 7 for awhile now:
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if you have to have a personal “brand”, let it be something that arises organically without intention or effort and that is only ever thought about by other people and not yourself
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My top 10 video games
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My top 10 albums (the 2010s has a hold on me apparently)
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My top 10 books:
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Honorable mentions:
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even as a kid i was writing bangers
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After much agony, I present my top 10 favorite movies:
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for the past 7 days i’ve been experiencing a fire hose of creativity and inspiration after a long period of drought… so many ideas/concepts that i can hardly keep up
simultaneously i’ve been having the most vivid and strange dreams out of nowhere
the brain is a fascinating organ
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holy shit, this kendrick x father john misty mashup goes hard
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large important block lists made and maintained by one random individual are bad for everyone
we gotta do something about this phenomenon, and i say this as a block list advocate
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I put together all of the Bluesky tools/resources I’ve collected into a list on my website. There are over 60+ different links now, and I’ve organized them by category: dame.blog/skeet-tools
Enjoy! 🦋
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my online life and my IRL social life are completely bifurcated with essentially no overlap — anyone else like this? can’t decide whether it’s good, bad, or indifferent…
