#digital age problems

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Exposed: How We Became Our Own Informants in the Social Media Age

From Street Code to Social Media: How We Lost Our Privacy Game WHAT’S GOOD, FAM? Hey, it’s your boy coming at you with some real talk about this digital circus we’re all trapped in. I have been watching this whole privacy situation unfold for years. I gotta say – we’re in a whole new world. Our OGs never could’ve imagined this. This blog is my way of understanding the shift. We went from “keep…

Exposed: How We Became Our Own Informants in the Social Media Age

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My DirectTv DVR had some sort of glitch overnight and every single show that I had recorded was suddenly deleted. :,(

And all my season passes and scheduled recordings were eliminated, too.

So I lost all the shows I’d been hoarding (all of OUAT 5a; Supergirl; the Librarians-which I’m still 3 episodes behind on; Brooklyn 99; NOVA and Nature from PBS; tons of kid shows for the little people) AND I have to go through the hassle of re-setting all of my season passes.

I’m not really liking DirectTV right now. Grrrrr.

[the-busy-ghost]

Weird thing about watching Life on Mars is that, although it was only made nine years ago, the technology in the first episode (the bits set in 2006) is almost nostalgic in itself. 

Computers have changed so drastically and quickly that I’m getting vague bits of nostalgia from them, despite the fact that everything else is pretty much the same as it is now, while I’m pretty sure my parents were supposed to be getting nostalgia from the 70s sections. 

(Also, does John Simm’s character ever change his trousers? I mean, he occasionally jazzes up his shirts but still).

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Anybody wanna go see Furious 7 with me?

Oh wait. All of you are a billion miles away from me.

[hmasfatty]

There is something in our room bleeping plaintively in the hope that I'll unearth it & plug it in but I have no idea what or where it is

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When I try to be cool

and buy a vintage camera and then ruin the film by opening the back before it was fully rewound.

Moral of the story: Stop trying to be cool.

BUMMED AS FUCK.