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wowwoweowza @lemmy.world 1d ago
This is the hard work of creating a sensible balance.
I use Lemmy because it lacks the predictive analytics and addictive features of the mainstream streams.
What does your off-time look like? How much are you 1999 tech or earlier?

1d ago

Unacceptable but true

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wowwoweowza @lemmy.world 1d ago

Oops — yeah, Kavanaugh

2d ago

Unacceptable but true

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wowwoweowza @lemmy.world 2d ago

James Kanenaugh poem:

There are people too gentle to live among wolves

Who prey upon them with corporate eyes

And sell their hearts and guts for martinis at noon.

There are people too gentle for a savage world

Who dream instead of snow and children and Halloween

And wonder if the leaves will change their color soon.

There are people too gentle to live among wolves

Who mark them for burial with greedy claws

And sacrifice them for a merchant’s profit and gain.

There are people too gentle for a corporate world

Who dream instead of Easter eggs and fragrant grass

And pause to hear the distant whistle of a train.

There are people too gentle to live among wolves

Who devour them with appetite and search

For others to prey upon and drain their childhood dry.

There are people too gentle for an accountant’s world

Who dream instead of Easter eggs and fragrant grass

And search for beauty in the mystery of the sky.

There are people too gentle to live among wolves

Who toss them aside like a wounded dove.

Such gentle souls are lonely in a merchant’s world

Unless they have another gentle soul to love.

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wowwoweowza @lemmy.world 2d ago

So… I long for this as well. But I haven’t even set aside one day a week… call it COLD TURKEY no tech day. I haven’t even done this.

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wowwoweowza @lemmy.world 2d ago

Such communities would benefit from grant fund seeding.

As you know, intentional communities were very popular in the 70s and likely align themselves to your values already.

You might visit these and see if they might not provide a foundation for the work your hope to engage in.

I’m all for your vision.

I wouldn’t be reading stop tech if I weren’t.

But as you know… my goals are more humble: get everyone reading paper books and using flip phones and mp3 players and meeting in parks to play frisbee and kick hacky sacks

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wowwoweowza @lemmy.world 3d ago

Here we’re are on a distributed network talking about tech. And agreeing.

I like my records and MP3s.

I like my camera and word processor.

But I agree with you that the Amish live a more healthy life style.

I have a family but if I didn’t… i might show up with my two hands and throw my lot in to that lifestyle. Do they allow books? That’s the one thing I could not live without.

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wowwoweowza @lemmy.world 4d ago

Well… yes, embrace nature. But if we push your line of thinking… the sweet spot comes before the locomotive, the pen, the compass.

I’ll venture that individually, groups of people, like the Amish, can and do take the good parts of tech without the bad.

I’m not so keen to go Amish, but I like to communicate with people who understand how instances work. How donations and service work.

I’m just not so quick to give up on 1999.

I’m willing to let others be distracted to death by their toys while they pour out money to the tech bros— I just won’t be one of those.

4d ago

So… this is really THE conversation. How do we roll the Internet back to around 1999? Obviously we include Wikipedia But pretty much every other so called innovation would ultimately infringe the rights of users or manipulate them.

We all sing the same song here.

We love our MP3s played on private devices.

We love our anonymity.

But we also love access to like minds and information.

Yes — nature is a great solution and we need to have it in our lives every day, but it shouldn’t be an either or situation.

For a brief and shining moment - right around 1999, we had the ability to opt in only where we wanted and to protect ourselves completely when we did not. Corporations had not figured out total surveillance.

This is the sweet spot. And Lemmy is a part of this — I consider all of the Fediverse prime time 1999.

3w ago

I'm interested in movies that disappear immediately...

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wowwoweowza @lemmy.world 3w ago

Yes — even under the radar will do.

Thanks for the clarifying.

Have you seen Anniversary — this is a scathing anti MAGA big star vehicle that was marginalized because it’s controversial. A great watch if you have time.

3w ago

I'm interested in movies that disappear immediately...

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wowwoweowza @lemmy.world 3w ago

Details from the Wikipedia article:

A number of critics connected the film's reception to its unusual distribution and minimal promotion, which several reviews treated as part of the story of how it reached audiences.[d] Empire'sreviewer detailed Fox's decision not to screen the film for critics and its sparse theatrical rollout, portraying this handling as a major reason the film was not widely seen at the time.[31]The Slate writer framed the release pattern as a form of institutional discomfort with the film's targets, presenting the quiet rollout as consistent with a satire that attacks corporate and media power.[30] Film Threat's reviewer likewise emphasized the limited release and lack of advertising, contrasting that treatment with what the review described as a genuinely funny film and interpreting the mismatch as evidence of tension between the filmmaker and the studio.[37] The Los Angeles Times and the Austin Chronicle both described the film as effectively dumped, with the latter suggesting that this kind of dismissive handling resembled the institutional stupidity that the film itself lampoons.[28][33]