Jonathan Blow on Twitter: "Sorry, this was “smart people are too smart for”, but my stupid-ass phone keeps thinking it is smarter than me, and Twitter would rather add 200-acre Moments tabs than an edit button. Also the downfall of society.… https://t.co/Qa6u4YlvN4"

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Mason Retweeted Christina Sommers

I have a sense that "tech addiction" is a misshapen concept not because it's pointing toward some inwarranted concern, but because it medicalizes one node in the system of requirements & allowables in an increasingly unhealthy systemhttps://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/1151685083520278533 …

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Christina SommersVerified account @CHSommers

Is tech addiction a myth? Pretty much. Explained well here.

https://twitter.com/ShuhBillSkee/status/1151481347413880833 …

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Mason ‏ @webdevMason Jul 17

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We've already seen this with ADHD, a diagnosis that's allocated to some people with limitations that genuinely render them nonfunctional, many people who struggle, & many more who are pathologically(?) unable to stare at spreadsheets all day at work without amphetamines

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Mason ‏ @webdevMason Jul 17

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Perhaps — similarily to the way that most (if not all) humans are simply not suited to staring at spreadsheets for 4+ hours per day — most humans cannot tolerate a social hierarchy that permits them no upward moves based on mastery or valor because no true "small ponds" remain

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Mason ‏ @webdevMason Jul 17

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At the same time that their every capacity is compared to, say, that of a remote worker in an arbitrarily low-GDP locale who can be hired for pennies on the dollar, an upcoming raid is inching ever closer AND HEALERS ARE DESPERATELY NEEDED

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Mason ‏ @webdevMason Jul 17

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These are still largely urban concerns that haven't percolated to e.g. less dense regions of the U.S. But we still see "tech addiction" there, so what gives? I think it tells us that whatever the hierarchy/status-disrupting tech is, it's not some SF subculture issue

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Mason ‏ @webdevMason Jul 17

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FWIW, my intuition is that to the extent that there's a harmful gaming/social media node dominating, it's actually downwind of the dating apps & the culture that's been forming around them for more than a decade

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Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Jul 17

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I think the current younger generations are the first to grow up in this postmodernized “smart people all believe there is no meaning” environment...

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Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Jul 17

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People my age had some exposure to that, but there was still enough remnants of a culture around that believed in things. Outside of churches today (which “smart people aren’t too smart for”), what portions of society actually honestly believe in anything?

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Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Jul 17

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Sorry, this was “smart people are too smart for”, but my stupid-ass phone keeps thinking it is smarter than me, and Twitter would rather add 200-acre Moments tabs than an edit button. Also the downfall of society.

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  Was successful reverting twitter layout via spoofing user-client to opera 12 using "user agent switcher for chrome". Cookie editing method seems to not work anymore for many.
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