What people who like to dunk on Black Mirror are like: "Oi guvnah wot you got on the telly?" "Black Mirror, it's a show from the UK about how our relationship with technology is complicated." "Oi guvnah so it's tech is bad, innit" "Please stop talking like that, you're American"
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Replying to @tinysubversions
very tangential but it still feels weird how ideas are so rapidly devalued as/because they gain broader currency
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Replying to @alicemazzy @tinysubversions
like there was a point somewhere where ideas went from having some inherent utility (thing is good, its spread is good because now more people know the good thing)
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Replying to @alicemazzy @tinysubversions
to more strictly disease-like (where "viral" has become value-neutral this is more, incubating communities disdain/despise idea spread in broader populace)
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Replying to @alicemazzy @tinysubversions
I just thought of this because "what if phones but too much" was legitimately hilarious two years ago (countersignal) but now marks one as basic (signal)
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Exhaustion, exhaustion-from-exhaustion, and so on
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A friend once suggested that my whole thing is "fuck x, where x is the dominant paradigm" and...........he's not wrong
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yea I had to consciously step back from constant counter-countersignalling but this only ended up transforming pervasive antipathy to amused indifference
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