Yo, Bear Core, get up here

Interesting perspective on Dead Internet Theory.

One important point: websites condition you. Reddit and 4Chan are both websites with the end of content sharing, but Reddit's culture where democratically popular ideas are spread and 4Chan's culture where ideas that are reacted to generally the most are spread incentivize radically different behavior from their users. We see here at once the influencing power of technique, a sign that we ought to adopt new techniques carefully.

Side question: what impacts does this platform, Telegram, have on our behavior? What does it incentivize? That there's no central algorithms curating content to users suggests that the effect is likely weaker than for those others sites, but certain dopamine hits still exist here, and that, among other things, might have an impact on users.

*statement does not apply to Chicago or Minneapolis or Columbus or Indianapolis or Detroit, Milwaukee, Madison, Cincinnati or St. Louis.

Have you ever paid extra for (what many will consider) a downgrade? My car came with a push button start and I got it swapped out for a key-based ignition.

The American Mind is publishing slop. It's over.

Give Yarvin half a shekel for his correct take here.

Speaking of Yarvin, his recent poasting on American treatment of Germans following WW2 is good: https://x.com/curtis_yarvin/status/1930232102986842384

Treasonous scoundrels like this ought to be sent back to their homelands

Any Hawaiians in chat looking for a home?

They don't make newspaper ads like this anymore

What's a modern piece of technology or popular version of it that you've barely had any encounters with?

I think the total amount of time I've had an iPhone in my hand is probably about 5 minutes.

Wildfire smoke looks neat