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[thejaymo]

Wrapped Reactions | Weeknotes

Wrapped’s magic was that it transformed data into something personal—but that's fragile.

This week, a scramble—December closes in. I long for the solstice, the days are too short, and there’s too much to do.

Wrapped Reactions | Weeknotes

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The Intellectual Obesity Crisis

Information addiction is rotting our brains

Common types of junk info include gossip, trivia, clickbait, hackery, marketing, churnalism, and babble. But in fact, any information that you can't use is junk info. A typical example on social media would be a photo of a freshly cooked burger, captioned with "Look what I just made!" but posted without a recipe so you can't even recreate it. Such an image might make you briefly salivate, and possibly spur you to make a burger of your own, but it provides no discernible value to your life.

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What You Could Have Won | 2340

| As is tradition, here are all the episodes that didn’t get made in 2023, and a little note about Season 11 and 2024 Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2023/12/02/301-2340-eoy-2023/ Support the show!  Subscribe to my zine Watch on Youtube Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo @thejaymo…

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Season 10! | 2331

Permanently Moved will be celebrating its 250th episode during this next run of 10 shows. I’m looking forward to achieving that! Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2023/09/30/2331-season-10/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo @thejaymo…

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Slowly Starting To Happen | Weeknotes

I know I’ve spent the summer annoyed about the state of social media. But I’ve spent most of it largely off it. Mainly due to it being blocked. I’m not really reading or consuming it at all. I log in, post something, reply to DM’s and notifications and log out. The news is also blocked. What’s slowly starting to happen, as I spend more and more time in smaller communities instead. Is that I’m…

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[thejaymo]

That's Right

Time just seems to be slipping out from under me whilst I feel like I’m slowing down. I can’t belive it’s nearly September, christ. Lots yet to fill the year with though. FOREST BED – EP LAUNCH The next big date in the calendar is THIS THURSDAY – 24th AUG in SURBITON, SOUTH WEST LONDON That’s right. My band is finally putting out our EP.

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Before anyone starts losing their shit over the latest discovery of liquid water on Mars, I want to remind you all that it hasn’t even been three (3) whole years since the last such discovery, and whatever salty puddles we’re looking at do not dramatically change our evaluation that the Red Planet is very cold and dry.

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I really don’t get the “2016/2017/2018 are/will be horrible” narrative. I had plenty of problems, but most of those were in my own life. And yeah, the election was miserable, but you’re the ones who chose to make November last forever. Tear your eyes away from the newsscreen and things might be different.

If you really can’t believe me, deactivate your Twitter account, or at least block all the newshounds. I’ve done it before, and it really was an improvement. My resolve faltered, I’ve fallen back into bad habits, but at least I have the excuse of poor incentives in my day-to-day life. A lot of the politicos....don’t.

Heinlein is right about this. If you need a New Year’s Resolution, I suggest focusing on your own problems instead of bigger issues you can’t affect. I’ve done it before and it works wonders for mental health. Try it yourself.