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[thamit]

Job promotion

[thammit]

T H E I M A G I N A R Y .

[azspot]

“I could imagine a world in which users don’t even think about software because all functions are accessed through chat and agents. Why should I have to go pick out an app for every silly little thing I want to do? If I need a decibel measure, my phone could just pick one for me, install it, take a measurement, and then delete it, solely based on the instruction to record a measurement. As chat interfaces become more popular, software companies (especially mobile apps) may pare back or even drop development of GUIs: why bother designing a visual control interface if the app can be controlled entirely by voice? Maybe touchscreens will come to seem unnecessary for most personal users.”

— Reimagining mobile

[catchymemes]

[sandmandaddy69]

[bombjack]

[weil-weil-lautre]

The TV news loves a good victim; and while this attitude suggests a most enlightened, charitable impulse, it is not conducive to an activist response, because this love is fatally possessive of its broken object: 'Stay as you are!' it tells the oppressed. 'Your battered face has earned you our esteem!' Within this schema, the worst thing that can happen to the underdog is not to die or go on suffering, but to become unpitiable, to stand up strong. Because the news allows no categories between those of the noble weakling and the ugly victory, any group that does attempt to shed its lowly status zips straight fro subjugation into villainy. Whenever this occurs, the journalists turn indignant; yet the wouldn't have it otherwise, as long as the new configuration yields fresh victims for the sympathetic camera.

Mark Crispin Miller, Boxed In, p. 161

[weantuniverse]

(via (1) Facebook)

[thesadandterriblejoxworld]

[acecroft]

It's exciting obviously when you write a script and you get someone like Nick [Cage] on board. I mean, those words were written by me in a script, but they certainly weren't written to be performed that way. He did that. - director Osgood Perkins [from audio commentary]

Longlegs (2024)

[azspot]

PX Molina

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

[liberatingreality]

You will never find the real truth among people that are insecure or have egos to protect. Truth over time becomes either guarded or twisted as their perspective changes; it changes with the seasons of their shame, love, hope or pride.

Shannon L. Alder

[hot-paint-heat-point]

[azspot]

“This new medium is reprogramming us, yet we fail to grasp the radical paradigm shift that is underway. We are hobbling along after the very medium that, below our threshold of conscious decision, is definitively changing the ways that we act, perceive, feel, think, and live together. We are enraptured by the digital medium yet unable to gauge the consequences of our frenzy fully. The crisis we are now experiencing follows from our blindness and stupefaction.”

— Byun-Hul Chan

[amygdala-deactivation]

[ojovivomotion]

Gossip Flooding

[azspot]

“Religious people who use the scriptures to condemn or exclude others seem to have different goals and objectives from those of God or Jesus. Their arguments generally have to do with very secular concerns: power and control, fear of the other and the unknown, and idealization of a family unit that Jesus himself neither lived nor idealized. Check the Gospels if you don’t believe me.”

— Richard Rohr