*Stephenson 2-18 isn’t just big; it’s cosmic hubris made plasma.Our Sun, the unquestioned ruler of our sky, is a mere speck next to it… …it’s there, right now: a swollen, crimson ember the size of a planetary system, quietly reminding us that in the universe’s ledger of extremes, our Sun doesn’t even register as http://average.It’s not just a star. It’s a warning label on the cosmos: “Objects in telescope may be more terrifying than they appear.”*

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*you aren't "informed." You are being optimized for engagement* View quoted note →

*It’s not theft by the cashier. It’s extraction by design.* View quoted note →

😑 *Barclays estimated that more than half of US GDP growth in 2025 came from AI related investment. People know that we are staking the economy on something that doesn’t really promise much other than hey :) this thing will take your job :) and it’s gonna do art now :) and maybeee make a lot of people real rich but your electricity bill (which is already flipping voters) is going to go up. And China might win. Also, it’s against the terms of service to kill yourself* Kyla Scanlon

*Confidence, optimism, and long-term thinking all require mental spaciousness. If the information environment becomes chaotic, the emotional environment will be too. And if attention is the infrastructure of democracy, that infrastructure is in disrepair.* Kyla Scanlon

*We are all collectively haunted by the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle: We are all finding that it really is 10x harder to debunk lies than it is to produce them, leading to things like ragebait as a marketing and product strategy - it’s also a great way to raise a lot of venture capital money? Misinformation is a great way to build wealth: Twitter pays you a lot of money if you lie to a lot of people and make them very angry at you. People abroad are tapping into this money machine - logically! - and polluting US politics in a way that should probably be illegal?* Kyla Scanlon