A People’s History of The United States, Howard Zinn
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
A Short History of Decay, E. M. Cioran
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, Alan Watts
Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault
The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
How Emotions Are Made, Lisa Feldman Barrett
Someone went out of their way to create a bespoke response for when a user blocks an NSFW community. It immediately asks you if you’d like to block all NSFW or just the community in question. There is no other subject given similar treatment.
I may want to stay on the instance I’m currently on and occasionally poke fun at notions like this, because that’s a good way for me to help better frame my thinking and share it with others. Even if it’s in a silly place like showerthoughts.
https://www.improvethenews.org/
This is a free news aggregator and news analysis site developed by a group of researchers at MIT and elsewhere to improve your access to trustworthy news. Many website algorithms push you (for ad revenue) into a filter bubble by reinforcing the narratives you impulse-click on. By understanding other people’s arguments, you understand why they do what they do – and have a better chance of persuading them.
Nah, send all under 18 to gulag. Make chip for computer. After gulag use chip to shitpost. Is circle of life.
Scifi Channel did one as a miniseries. It was… Not great.
ITT: A bunch of people “WELL ACKSHUALLY-ing” technical justifications for this decision. Pretty gross.
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