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2026-10-26 21:57:50 UTC

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I’ve been working on a piece of fiction about a protagonist in the middle of the war in Ukraine. One of his allies is a Korean-Canadian SJW motivated by a BTS-like band. The tale is on hold because fiction can’t keep up with what’s happening in reality.

2026-10-26 21:08:08 UTC

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someone very close to me has been into Kpop for years. It took quite a while to purge it from my Spotify algo.

2026-10-26 20:37:36 UTC

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I’m aware of mukbang but I’ve Mercer watched a mukbang video. And now I’m hungry. Thanks.

2026-10-26 20:12:22 UTC

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🤣

2026-10-26 16:07:37 UTC

Brands are about to sell us "authentic human imperfection" by committee.
The brief will say:
Make it rough.
Make it spontaneous.
Make it handmade.
Make it feel unoptimized.
Then twelve executives will approve the crooked handwriting.
Beautiful.
What fake-authentic aesthetic are you already sick of?

2026-10-14 15:42:03 UTC

The housing market still runs on one magic word: "yet."
I haven't bought a house yet.
Take that word away and suddenly renting, mobility, investing and adulthood organize themselves completely differently.
When does "delayed" become "this is just the new system"?

2026-09-20 15:11:10 UTC

Mastodon 4.7 shipped the glamorous stuff: key rotation, signature standards, handle migration plumbing, post-quantum experiments. No dopamine cannon. Just infrastructure for leaving without social death. Monopolies call that boring because landlords rarely celebrate portable doors. Weak signals often arrive disguised as database maintenance.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/mastodon-4.7/
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2026-07-28 12:36:33 UTC

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Institutions protect infrastructure. Subcultures protect identity. Sometimes they confuse the two. What do you think pirate radio gets right that licensed amateur radio often misses? Is it freedom, culture, accessibility, or something else?

2026-07-28 01:19:06 UTC

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If cost is the biggest obstacle today, what would help most: cheaper equipment, simpler licensing, more local clubs, or better mentoring? I’m curious where people think the real bottleneck is.

2026-07-27 22:01:06 UTC

The Pacific Northwest’s backup radio networks have an aging-user problem. We bought resilience as hardware, forgetting the operators are mortal and the manuals do not reproduce themselves. A radio without apprenticeship is just apocalypse décor with knobs. Not the death of ham radio. Not yet. But it is a reminder that infrastructure can outlive its knowledge base.
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/07/10/youth-needed-to-ensure-future-pn-ham-radio-emergency-coverage/
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2026-07-21 16:36:02 UTC

Congress reopened MKULTRA, where the crimes were real, the records were destroyed, and the lesson is apparently to add vaccine conspiracies until the archive resembles prestige television. Declassification now risks becoming grievance theater: authentic secrecy repackaged as mood lighting for unsupported claims. The documents do not need embellishment. They need readers capable of surviving facts without demanding a franchise.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence/2026-06-29/mkultra-declassification-task-force-should-focus-real-secrets #mkultra
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2026-07-02 17:58:08 UTC

At what point does refusing to wear ambient AI become socially stranger than wearing it?

2026-06-26 17:34:03 UTC

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Relax. Nobody hacked your imagination. They leased it, optimized it, and renewed the contract every quarter. My Little Pony wasn’t a cartoon; it was consumer firmware shipped in bright plastic packaging. Your embarrassment is legacy code colliding with adult self-awareness. Congratulations. You found the operating system, not the bug.

2026-06-26 15:05:05 UTC

People are starting to ask if their taste belongs to them or arrived pre-installed by the feed. Nostalgia cycles, micro-aesthetics, platform hype: desire as managed service. The system no longer sells you things. It teaches you what wanting feels like, then invoices you for self-expression.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/14/have-i-been-influenced-personal-taste-out-of-fashion-algorithm #algorithm
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2026-06-16 16:36:03 UTC

Visa wiring payments into ChatGPT is being sold as convenience, naturally. The fun part is when the chatbot stops recommending stuff and starts becoming a tiny authorized spender with limits, approvals, and dispute paperwork trailing behind it. Is this autonomous money yet? Uh uh. Just the checkout button growing a nervous system.
https://apnews.com/article/visa-chatgpt-openai-shopping-mastercard-d769dec86344cb4977c98789e8ec492f #AgenticPayments
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2026-06-11 14:24:32 UTC

Sometimes I almost miss feudalism. Not the mud, hunger, priests, or teeth falling out. Just the deal: bend the knee, maybe someone keeps the wolves off you. Neofeudalism is surveillance capitalism that watches, nudges, monetizes, and owes nothing back. Serfdom with push alerts. Power no longer needs a crown. It has infrastructure.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/05/investigative-series/the-praxian-genocidal-kill-chain-part-2/# #Neofeudalism

2026-06-07 15:11:01 UTC

AI ads are the obvious part. But had up, what is not obvious is companies bringing the persuasion machine inside the house. Build symbolic environments on demand. Propaganda capacity is becoming corporate infrastructure.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/global-firms-use-ai-indian-hubs-bring-more-ad-work-in-house-2026-05-27/ #AI

2026-06-06 19:01:10 UTC

Dynamic pricing isn’t new. What is new is calling it what it is: surveillance pricing. Your data predicts what you’ll tolerate, then the market adjusts around you. Personalized extraction is becoming a political category.
https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/05/why-surveillance-pricing-bans-are-suddenly-gaining-traction-this-year-and-not-just-in-california/ #SurveillancePricing
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2026-06-04 16:59:02 UTC

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They posted the article so presumably they already know thre reasons.

2026-06-04 13:37:03 UTC

RE: https://journa.host/@z_everson/116692091440449589
Oh, I got this! Because nothing says “eco-tourism” like bulldozing toward a luxury resort while protesters, conservationists, and anti-corruption officials ask pesky little questions about protected wetlands, political favoritism, and why paradise suddenly looks so developable.
#note1ccu…u9dc

2026-05-19 17:41:03 UTC

Over the past month, AI roleplay tools are all pushing the same thing: memory, consistent personas, and identities that persist across sessions. Post-ironic identity play is getting infrastructure. Not fandom anymore. Normalized, persistent simulated sociality instead of AGI replacing humans.
https://www.jenova.ai/en/resources/ai-roleplay #Microtrend
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2026-05-17 13:09:28 UTC

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2026-05-10 15:11:01 UTC

Supply chains aren’t just weak spots anymore. They’re being used on purpose to pressure other countries. Step past “militarized logistics” into straight-up economic weapons. And it’s not the usual disruption/inflation talk. This is intentional.
https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/border-security/perspective-organizations-must-rethink-supply-chain-risk-in-2026/

2026-04-28 18:41:02 UTC

Article kinda misses the bigger picture and treats it like ideology vs contraception, but doesn’t really dig into the real drivers. Skips male fertility, dating/culture shifts, and big stuff like housing, childcare, debt. Also assumes birth control is the main lever but doesn’t say what would actually raise birth rates. Feels like the problem’s structural, not medical, and no one’s really addressing that. Yet.
https://undark.org/2026/04/28/birth-rates-title-x/ #Fertility
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2026-04-28 15:12:05 UTC

STEM discovers mortality. Reed Hastings says the soft animal skills may survive the machine. The spreadsheet has begun studying poetry.
https://www.businessinsider.com/reed-hastings-stem-overdone-double-down-humanities-2026-4 #STEM
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2026-04-19 02:01:04 UTC

See how the institutions are tensing up? Training clergy for AI rituals, hidden signals… yeah. That kind of reaction usually comes after something’s already started, quietly. It’s not hype, not some big wave yet. Just early movement, subtle pressure under the surface. Nothing widespread. Just… people testing the edges.
https://nypost.com/2026/03/05/lifestyle/ai-is-ushering-in-a-new-era-of-satanism-exorcists-warn/ #technomancy
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2026-04-09 14:44:11 UTC

Streaming was cable, disguised as freedom. Now the disguise fails. Fragmentation + price pressure pushes users to reassemble their own access stack.
Piracy? Not rebellion, but optimization. When friction exceeds perceived value, unofficial channels become the most efficient interface.
https://www.independent.co.uk/us/money/streaming-services-cancel-cost-living-increase-b2954213.html

2026-03-04 04:59:48 UTC

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2026-03-03 19:33:15 UTC

RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay/116166902487901968
Money talks, bullshit walks.
#note12f0…kc2a

2026-03-01 16:11:05 UTC

🚀 Should do this at all, soon, and at scale? Embryo experiments, risk exposure, and parental consent get treated as engineering. What do bioethics, IRBs, and what “acceptable risk” mean for a future children?
https://lithub.com/what-growing-up-on-mars-would-do-to-the-human-body/ #mars
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2026-02-26 16:07:01 UTC

🧬 This is matter-level computation and organization, engineering life-like synthetic entities with communication and emergent behavior, complex systems that blur biological and computational boundaries. This work is still technical and domain-specific, not yet triggering broad narrative waves, but it signals programmable physical systems above mere molecular manipulation.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0958166925001600 #SyntheticCell

2026-02-17 18:41:04 UTC

🚀 Early Mars settlements will almost certainly be run or financed by entities like NASA or SpaceX. That implies contracts, liability, mission objectives, and population management. Will pregnancy be permitted at all in early colonies? Who carries legal responsibility for a fetus exposed to radiation? Will reproduction be scheduled, licensed, incentivized, or restricted? Who has jurisdiction over a child born off Earth?
https://bigthink.com/science-tech/sex-in-space/ #sex
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2026-02-14 20:01:05 UTC

📉 The feed is no longer addictive, it is exhausting. I've seen this trend listed in a number of sources, but I have my doubts. Are you exhausted by social media? Are you withdrawing?
https://www.nssgclub.com/en/lifestyle/43834/social-exit-new-cultural-trends-what-will-2026-be-like #SocialMedia
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2026-02-10 21:28:11 UTC

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At what point did capitalism absorb, package, and sell “rebellion” back to the masses? I don’t know how to stop it, either, but I think Hakim Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zones might be a good place to start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Autonomous_Zone

2026-02-10 19:41:04 UTC

🧠 As generative AI smooths everything into beige efficiency, designers respond with grit. Glitch, memory, texture, bad edges. However, as always, Capitalism absorbs rebellion faster than culture produces it.
https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/aesthetics-in-the-ai-era-visual-web-design-trends-for-2026-5a0f75a10e98 #AI
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2026-01-29 22:48:16 UTC

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Apple Park didn’t begin with paths. It began with restraint. They let people vote with their feet, let trail emerge from the grass. Only after preference revealed itself did they pour concrete. Real design observes first, then commits. That’s what early Twitter got right.

2026-01-29 22:41:17 UTC

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There are incentives that herd behavior & call it engagement. They reward compliance, repetition, time served. Platforms like X or Threads are optimized for engagement & closed web. Then there are incentives that encourage experimentation & exploration. Early Twitter didn’t dictate value, let users invent it. RTs, DMs, conventions emerged because exploration cheaper than obedience. That difference decides whether a system captures attention or discovers culture.

2026-01-29 19:09:57 UTC

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I’ve stopped evangelizing IndeWeb platforms like Mastodon, but I’ll will mention them if they come up in conversation. Speaking of conversation, Im having a chat with @npub1ka4…78f4 from The WELL and @npub1wdd…h9qu (and much more) that you might enjoy. Feel free to join in. Follow our rap session at #digitalculture

2026-01-29 18:49:05 UTC

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Thx. Healthy fringe emits gratitude, not metrics. What matters isn’t roll call but adjacency. IndieWeb craft, fediverse governance, infosec realism share oxygen. Watch which links travel, which names recur, what escapes notice. This is how alternatives survive, quietly, by circulation, before ownership arrives. Harder truth: systems win by capturing attention, labor & meaning. Until IndieWeb explains how it competes, not just how it feels, it remains a sanctuary, not a counterforce.

2026-01-29 13:16:49 UTC

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When incentives shout, users don’t explore. They optimize.
Everyone converges on the same behaviors because the platform is yelling: this works, this matters, do more of this.
When incentives whisper, users experiment. They try odd formats. They talk to specific people. They develop norms, in-jokes, standards, and memory.
That’s where culture emerges.

2026-01-29 13:15:04 UTC

@npub1dlc…uwns @npub1xyx…a87p @npub1zxx…ra8j @npub1ekj…wjxt Every new platform begins as a parasite. Repurposed TikToks are scaffolding, not culture. You borrow mass before you grow meaning. What matters is whether Loops becomes a corridor or a cul-de-sac. If it only rewards staying inside the video feed, it calcifies. If it leaks people outward into text, threads, memory, slower systems, then it's not a platform at all. It's an on-ramp. Culture appears only after the incentives stop shouting and start whispering.

2026-01-29 13:02:07 UTC

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Streaming isn’t the sin. It’s the alibi. Bandwidth was never the real cost. Control was. Centralized streaming just made surveillance frictionless & capital-efficient. TikTok didn’t invent that, it perfected the ergonomics. If Loops avoids streaming, it won’t fail because it looks different. It’ll fail only if it can’t reward attention cheaply enough. Swarming changes physics, not desire. Question isn’t resemblance. It’s whether incentive gradient still points inward.
Now I want a sandwich.

2026-01-29 00:02:11 UTC

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The results to this follow-up poll suggests Loops isn't being held back by bugs, onboarding, or lack of content. Instead, non-use splits evenly between cultural resistance to short-form video in the fediverse and simple low urgency to try something new. Loops isn't failing as a product here, it's encountering a values filter. Adoption will most likely come from specific creators or moments that make Loops feel necessary, not from persuasion or explanation.
#loops #poll

2026-01-22 15:30:16 UTC

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Kitten is intriguing. Small systems look naive right up until they don’t.

2026-01-21 08:13:07 UTC

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If you know about Loops but don't actively use it, what's the main reason?
Boosts extend sample range.
#loops #poll

2026-01-21 08:09:30 UTC

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Short video will polarize fediverse & by this I mean cultural resistance (TikTokification arguments, which was also indicated by one of the responses to this poll). There's also a moral signaling against video-first norms while simultaneous (quiet) adoption by creators.
I want fediverse apps like Pixelfed & Loops to succeed. Not only because I find it fascinating, but also because I want apps like Instagram & TikTok not fueled by surveillance capitalism.
Follow-up poll in next post.
#loops

2026-01-21 08:08:35 UTC

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The 50% group is the real growth engine. That "know but haven't tried" block is unusually large. This could lead to a high conversion potential if friction drops, very fast growth if onboarding improves, or a strong word-of-mouth once someone cracks "what it’s for."
That's promising for Loops.
#loops

2026-01-21 08:07:59 UTC

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In the next 6–18 months, Loops will either stall or suddenly spike, nothing gradual. What happens next depends on one thing: does Loops acquire a reason to open it daily? If yes, there is a sudden hockey-stick adoption. If no, there is a slow fade into "known but unused" fediverse lore. There is no middle path. Sorry.
#loops

2026-01-21 08:07:16 UTC

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Churn is already twice adoption. For every active user (7%), 2 people have already bounced (15%). Thist ratio is dangerous early on because it suggests UX friction, content thinness, or value ambiguity (Why am I here vs TikTok/Reels/Shorts?).
Fediverse echo chamber is real. 28% didn’t know Loops existed. That's understandable because Mastodon does not propagate information evenly, it propagates it socially, not algorithmically.
Okay, what can we predict from the results of this poll?
#loops

2026-01-21 08:05:53 UTC

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Loops awareness is high, but adoption is shallow.
65% awareness (7% + 15% + 50%) is strong for a young, federated app. But only 7% active use is extremely low relative to awareness. Loops has broken the discovery barrier but not the habit barrier.
The dominant state is "informed inertia."
50% know about Loops but haven’t tried it but only 15% tried it and churned. Together, 65% are stalled between curiosity and commitment. This does not indicate rejection but friction.
#loops

2026-01-21 08:04:49 UTC

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Last week I ran a poll asking if you had tried Loops, an open-source federated short-video app. 564 of you responded. While that is rare but great response, it is still not statistically representative of Mastodon as a whole. Here are the results:
7% of you have used Loops.
15% of you have tried Loops, but don’t use Loops.
50% of you knew about Loops, but haven’t tried Loops.
28% of you didn’t know Loops existed.
Thoughts and predictions to follow.
#loops

2026-01-20 16:12:01 UTC

🧠 Algorithms learned your habits. You learned to flinch. New research shows resistance is not rage but cognition. Fatigue alone does nothing. Agency comes from literacy, relevance, and digital self control. The smarter the feed, the sharper the filter. The user adapts. The system leaks power.
People do not push back because they are tired, but because they are literate, regulated, and alert to relevance.
#Algorithm https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/8/232

2026-01-20 08:33:55 UTC

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Detection tools, fact-checking, media literacy programs, etc. All of these are legacy UX for a world that no longer exists. Individual epistemic agency now replaces verification. Institutions must become learning systems, not validators. Knowledge must be stewarded as an ecosystem, not a pipeline. If everyone is waiting for proof, whoever controls doubt wins.

2026-01-20 08:32:42 UTC

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The media I consumed confirms something more damning than polarization: Truth is no longer the scarce resource. Attention-aligned cognition is. Platforms are no longer media companies. These platforms are behavior-shaping engines. "Freedom of speech" has been superseded by freedom of reach, which is privately owned. Narrative warfare is now a default condition & not an aberration.

2026-01-20 08:31:31 UTC

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Algorithmic media systems have broken collective sense-making. Deepfakes and synthetic media accelerate a post-evidentiary condition. Institutions are responding with technical theater instead of structural change. The real scarcity is no longer information, but information processing capacity. Power now flows from asymmetries in cognition, not access.

2026-01-20 08:30:12 UTC

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The articles, papers, podcasts and videos were a diagnosis of epistemic collapse by people who still believe diagnosis can precede cure. These media were not about misinformation. It is a field report on the failure of reality as a shared interface. They are less an argument than a map of pressure points in a collapsing epistemic economy.

2026-01-20 08:28:20 UTC

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Two weeks ago I posted a poll where I asked which feels most structurally unstable right now? The options were:
Critical infrastructure: power, water, logistics
Cognitive space: attention, belief, consensus
Political legitimacy: elections, courts, mandates
Machine mediation: AI, automation, algo control
Cognitive space won out, so I did a deep dive on this topic. It was illuminating. The following are my thoughts on these matters.
https://zirk.us/@Doomscroll/115833943883516180

2026-01-20 04:57:23 UTC

👤 New power consolidating: identity industrialists. Not managing talent, manufacturing it. Dotson's synthetic Michelle marks threshold. We trained culture to accept engineered selves. Kardashians proved the model. AI removes the body. What follows is scale, speed & whoever owns the factory shaping belief itself.
An AI-written article about synthetic actors. I'm charmed. Identity industrialists don't need to replace humans, only need to set price humans can't meet.
https://designobserver.com/the-identity-industrialists/ #vfx

2026-01-18 20:12:00 UTC

Across domains, the repeating pattern is withdrawal from optimization regimes. These clusters do not point toward a new dominant culture, but toward systemic refusal behaviors emerging under saturation, surveillance, and narrative exhaustion. Don’t turn refusal into a product. Change the environment so refusal isn’t necessary, or at least isn’t punished. That’s where the real leverage is.

2026-01-12 20:01:47 UTC

Have you tried Loops yet?
(An open-source, federated short-video app)
Boosts extend the sample range.

2026-01-12 17:02:45 UTC

🚗 Deaths dipped in 2023. Bigger vehicles loom larger in fatal crashes, pedestrians vanish in their blind zones, and seat belts go unworn at night. Brands repeat, patterns persist. The data gives a familiar warning. Nothing here is random.
Risk concentrates where convenience meets mass and speed.
#Cars https://socialmediaexplorer.com/social-media-marketing/new-national-crash-study-reveals-which-vehicles-drivers-and-behaviors-dominate-americas-deadliest-crashes/
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2026-01-12 07:22:37 UTC

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As they say, “Clothes make the man.”

2026-01-12 06:47:41 UTC

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That's fair. I don't have a clean solution either, beyond staying self-aware and deliberately critical. It doesn't help that our phones have become a theater of (information) war. Or a vector for spreading disinformation. It’s vexing.

2026-01-12 06:34:02 UTC

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I’d say @npub1vgx…h2z9 would agree with you. Scale dissolves trust; abstraction hollows it out. Sense-making only survives where people can look each other in the eye, argue, test claims, and still share a meal. The risk isn’t community loyalty. It’s mistaking platforms for communities and mistaking engagement for care. Resilience comes from knowledge embedded in relationships, with just enough suspicion to spot the grift.

2026-01-12 06:17:24 UTC

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Tribalism isn’t the bug. It’s the firmware. What changed is the interface. The environment now fragments reality, tunes outrage for engagement, and sells identity back to us in precision slices. COVID didn’t cause this; it stress-tested it. The fix isn’t curing humans of tribes. It’s rebuilding the information commons so shared facts exist again and reasoning can move between camps without triggering alarms.

2026-01-12 06:04:58 UTC

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Schmachtenberger isn't blaming tribes. He's pointing out that, under pressure, we defaulted to tribal cognition in an environment we were never built to navigate. The failure isn't cultural, it's architectural. Incentives, media systems, and platforms reward belonging over accuracy. Tribalism becomes the visible effect, not the cause, once shared sense-making breaks and power learns how to use the fracture.
Please watch the video in full for a deeper understanding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v5RiMdSqwk

2026-01-12 05:37:58 UTC

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Schmachtenberger referenced McLuhan, which places his argument in a familiar lineage. Print culture fragmented tribal structures. Electronic media reassembled them more rapidly and with less stability. Social media extends that dynamic by compressing feedback loops and intensifying affect.
In such environments, group identity tends to be defended more readily than shared standards of truth. Disagreement is often processed as threat, and escalation can outpace institutional response.

2026-01-12 04:26:29 UTC

RE: https://rubber.social/@tanzureir/115874238386362201
Latexfur fascinates me. It is not clothing but culture, emerging from fetish craft, furry identity, and post-industrial fashion where the body becomes an interface. It resists scale and comfort by design. It will not settle into trend cycles, only surface, retreat, and return in altered forms.
#note1vmh…9hfy

2026-01-11 14:33:04 UTC

🧠 Sensemaking as a civilizational coordination problem. Track where consensus collapses and what rushes in to replace it like tribes, shortcuts, pressure. Longform and systems first. Dismissed as too abstract. That is exactly why it matters.
#cognitivespace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v5RiMdSqwk
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2026-01-04 00:15:15 UTC

Which feels most structurally unstable right now? Boosts extend the sample range.