doomscrolling is in some sense necessary things are moving very quickly right now its not a matter of taking specific actions in response to events, but of rapidly reorienting in new and unexpected social environments to maintain a coherent identity
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I definitely make less sense in this world
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someone observed earlier that the accounts that were unhinged not so long ago often seem like reassuring voices today (
@halvorz? @browserdotsys?) so maybe it's possible to be internally shaped in such a way that when the world lurches your time simply arrives7 replies 0 retweets 55 likesShow this thread -
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I mean I make less sense to myself than I did, say, six or seven months ago I imagine more people have decohered than not though. I'm not sure mine is a decrease relative to median.https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1275687897912532993?s=19 …
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ah yes I read this from
@Aelkus when it came out, loved it, and immediately forgot about it I think this paragraph didn't parse the first time but I 90% identify with it now https://twitter.com/ivashko/status/1275689415382368266?s=19 …pic.twitter.com/noleyHTzMJ
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just decided citations in science came around not to measure merit per se but simply as a way to shout out to your bros
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its a great friendship gesture credible and public signal that you care about someones ideas enough to spend time absorbing them and keep thinking about them and maybe other people should too
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Everything feels perfectly normal to me. Upsetting, maybe, but normal. What's the point of reading all that history if you don't take living through history in stride?
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yeah im having a hard time making sense of what exactly robot is even referring to
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in fairness I was exhausted and stoned still tired so uh
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