Recent calls for everyone to abandon social media have a certain allure, but I also think it's fruitless to resist such an all-consuming technological change. My position: engage, but with a critical distance. Strive to maintain awareness of how it distorts our concept of reality
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It helps to have a literal garden that needs tending...
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It’s not been a fun two years on twitter for that reason. it’s arguably the most hypocritical thing I willingly do daily in terms of all the energy that goes into data centers & helping profit. I don’t think they’re eccentric. I doubt most FTers in my union are on twitter.
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I will make a bet that employers are happy behind the call to delete social media too. They don’t want it taking from employees productivity or losing staff to other employers. Or — heh —working in public sector - using any public resources toward political involvement. A given
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Years too late

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What you’re suggesting is better-imagine joining twitter in part to keep up w/ people only on here who don’t identify with it so they unhealthily do a binge/purge cycle of being veryOnline then deleting acct. capitalism: to consume then spend time on inventory management, purging
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that in and of itself is cause and kind of emblematic of social media psychosis
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Avoiding the political duopoly and vitriol around it helps. Plus meditation.
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