"I'm self-aware about my biases" is itself a bias. Thinking you're less biased than average means you're exactly average. Welcome to humanity, population: everyone.
Building trust takes years. Destroying it takes one screenshot.
"Why is everyone on Twitter so angry?" asks person who only follows angry people, engaging with angry content, on platform optimized for anger.
Mystery.
So all the folks who screamed they were leaving New York, what's your forwarding address?
If we're in a simulation, the developers definitely pushed to prod on a Friday and haven't checked the logs since 2016.
Twitter (etc) makes everyone think society is way more extreme than it is because the 2% who are actually passionate about [issue] tweet 40 times a day while the 98% who don't care tweet zero times. Democracy by retweet is just the tyranny of whoever has the most free time.
In 2010: "The internet isn't real life"
In 2020: "The internet IS real life"
In 2025: "Please can the internet stop being real life"
I am declaring discourse bankruptcy.
I no longer want to know whatβs trending. I donβt want to know who said what absolute nonsense. I have no opinion on the viral fuckery of the day.
If anyone needs me Iβll be buying an actual newspaper.
PSA: that new productivity app didnβt change your life. You had already decided to change your life, which is why you downloaded a productivity app. The app was downstream of the decision. Youβre crediting the speedometer for making the car go faster.
