This site keeps freezing on me. Can’t post much at all.

A team of dogs pull a sled through pools of meltwater over sea ice outside of Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, in June, 2022.

Photo by Dustin Patar.

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What I’d like to see is a little less focus on using new technologies to make already privileged lives easier (or more fun), and a little more focus on using new technologies to address the larger crises we face globally.

… and the puppeteers laugh and laugh at how predictable human behaviour is and how powerful they all are. The supposed competition is really just billionaires having fun. We’re the game pieces.

1.00am and the wind rises with the moon — a spill of quicksilver across a jittery black sea.

I have a feeling we’re all being played.

I really am envying those of you who are researching in the social media/human behaviour space right now. It would be like drinking from a fire hose, but still, what a time to be observing.

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Healing isn’t a large heavy blanket thrown over flames. It’s a thousand tiny seeds, watered.

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/02/21/dont-believe-the-hype-there-is-not-a-sentient-being-trapped-in-bing-chat/

Yep, still boring.

The marchand-mercier was a “maker of nothing, seller of everything”. We may all end up marchand-merciers.

The CEO-to-worker pay gap at America’s largest public companies is now 399-to-1.

In 1965, the ratio was 20-to-1.

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

“Believing with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.” Clifford Geertz, Interpretation of Cultures

#anthropology #culture

@siderea @jwwr Yes, it is a usual assumption.

@jwwr @siderea What about the iPhone I’m typing this on now? It is a material element of culture, you can speak with the person who made it, and the person who uses it.

We can keep talking about how to compete for fewer jobs, or we can talk about how to build communities in which ‘the job’ is no longer central to how we define ourselves and the multiply-composed worlds we live in.

I’m still on the bird, but definitely not for the (lack of) engagement. And I post snd share less. I’m more active on LinkedIn now but I’m not sure why (a lot of men think it’s a dating site). Unfortunately I have had massive issues on here (cannot access desktop version despite multiple requests for help - still waiting for a response after months). I was never on Facebook — zero interest. Actually, I wasn’t on socials at all until around 2016. Complete laggard. I’m finding myself retreating from all of it now. I’m not even blogging anymore.

The observation about geographical dispersion speaks to a tendency some have to romanticise WFH as a kind of return to a ‘local village’ lifestyle. It’s not. It’s very different. Our networks are not local. I’d love to learn of someone’s whose are! There’s a challenge.

@MsPraxis do people still collect stamps??