#attention capture

[ferdifz]

Pro-tip (especially for the chronically online, myself included):

Before unlocking your phone or turning on your laptop, write down:

on a piece of paper,

using a ballpoint-pen or a pencil,

(And yes, these two things are very important) what you want to do on the phone or on the laptop.

…Because believe you me, the moment your laptop is on and/or your phone's home screen is in front of you, you have completely forgotten what you had wanted to do in the first place.

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[mentalisttraceur]

Huuuuuge life improvement!

The "UnTrap for YouTube" extension.

Just checked Video Page -> Hide Related Videos. Instant, blissful, life-changing relief. (On Firefox it first asked me to enable a setting in about:config but I just clicked past that and so far it's working fine for me.)

God words cannot fucking describe how nice it is to have that load relieved. No longer do I have to spend willpower fending off video recs which are literally optimized and selected for hijacking human attention and decision-making as effectively as possible.

P.S. Firefox on mobile (Android, idk about iOS) added support for extensions recently! (There's also Kiwi Browser, based on Chromium, which has had web extension support for quite some time.)

[mentalisttraceur]

Now that Firefox on Android supports extensions like Stylus and GreaseMonkey, I can actually brutally fix my Tumblr attention capture problems, by just writing custom code to hide

all posts on people's blog URLs, and

all posts except the one I am looking at on post URLs.

I might do that soon. Of course, nothing will stop me from re-enabling it by going into my extension settings, but that's just enough of slow tedium to keep me from doing it unless it's important - especially on mobile.

[wickedzeevyln]

✮ Packaged ✮

Here’s something that will be sitting on a shelf at home for many months before it eventually goes to the dumpster. That’s how packaging works: it plays with our impulses—colorful wrappers with soul-jellying fonts, a familiar face slapped on the label to say they approve the product, a list of technobabble to evoke emotion—sleek design…oops! I did it again, like an oblivious Britney Spears,…

✮ Packaged ✮

[wickedzeevyln]

Packaged

Here’s something that will be sitting on a shelf at home for many months before it eventually goes to the dumpster. That’s how packaging works, it plays with our impulse, colorful wrappers with soul-jellying fonts, a familiar face slapped on the label to say that they approve the product, a list of technobabble to evoke emotion—sleek design…oops! I did again like an oblivious Britney Spears…

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