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Adam Compton@comptona.bsky.social |
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I'm not, but if I were, how would you know?
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
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Because, again: Disability is the only minority anyone can join at any time, & which everyone will join, if they're lucky enough to live that long. A disease, a quirk of genetics, a bus, a bad fall from a curb. Anything. And the only thing we have that could consistently make this fact survivable…
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Marisa Kabas
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i summed up project 2025 in one sentence. feel free to use.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-wind...
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geoffrey
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largest french turnout in 40 years, to keep the nazis down. fascism sucks up power left unattended
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Adam Compton
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It's always seemed to me that it takes a certain kind of delusional mindset to look at the vast unlikelihood of succeeding in the arts and going for it anyway. The few folks who do make it probably have a survivor bias for "ignoring the haters has always worked for me in the past!"
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Adam Compton
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Agent Smith's speech about 1999 being the peak of human civilization gets more and more uncomfortable as time goes by
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Adam Compton
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Five Finger Death Punch covering The Offspring's "Gone Away" brings such a different energy from the original, and I think they're both amazing
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Adam Compton
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Money and power are padding; they protect you from the sharp edges in life, but the more padding you swaddle yourself in, the less you can feel anything. Then you no longer trust yourself to be robust, so you seek ever more padding, growing more and more fragile, and the spiral draws you down.
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Adam Compton
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Agent Smith's speech about 1999 being the peak of human civilization gets more and more uncomfortable as time goes by
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wade of mutilation
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
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Adam Compton
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It used to be possible to go too far. There is no longer an outer limit, just a one-way ratchet of more and more extreme behavior as long as it plays well on TikTok.
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Adam Compton
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The point of being social is to maintain the approval of your community. We've built a machine that offers community, no matter how insane you are, as long as you keep escalating with fresh content. Stopping loses that group and the original is already lost, so you can't ever stop. See also: Qanon
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Adam Compton
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"You gotta learn how to play the game to be in politics, you scratch my back I scratch yours", etc., and meanwhile Trump is playing a completely different game that people with politics brain are incapable of comprehending even exists
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Adam Compton
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There are things that cannot be done, and other things that merely Are Not Done™️. Trump does the latter constantly and it surprises folks every time. I suspect it has to do with politicians' understanding of the iterated prisoner's dilemma and Trump's ability to consistently defect without penalty
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Adam Compton
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Another example of the old saying, never give someone a weapon you wouldn't want used against yourself.
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Adam Compton
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Facts only matter to neurodivergent folks, for neurotypicals it's vibes all the way down
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Adam Compton
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Just like in Lincoln's Cooper Union speech, "what will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right." Some values are irreconcilable.
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Adam Compton
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Instrumentalism: "a pragmatic philosophical approach which regards an activity [...]chiefly as an instrument or tool for some practical purpose, rather than in more absolute or ideal terms". Some folks try to accomplish their goals with what they have, and others would rather be pure than successful
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Gillian Branstetter
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Must be nice to have choices
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Adam Compton
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It should be illegal to build any technology which has been the subject of a Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, or Black Mirror episode. Call it the SciFi-Horror-Anthology Edict or some such.
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Adam Compton
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I was watching an "old" movie (from the 90s) with my young children recently, and I had to pause it for a good 20 minutes to answer and unpack why nobody in the movie used their smartphone to look up a crucial piece of information
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Adam Compton
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Facts only matter to neurodivergent folks, for neurotypicals it's vibes all the way down
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Adam Compton
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Watching the Weird Al "It's All About The Pentiums" video with a new grad is a _trip_. "What's that big box on the desk with all the cables coming out of it?" 🫠
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Adam Compton
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The head designer of Magic: The Gathering mentions occasionally about how they sometimes design a mechanic in a certain spirit, and then the playtesting folks break it in half so they don't use it. If only the rest of the world had as much foresight and dedication to experience design as a card game
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Adam Compton
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It should be illegal to build any technology which has been the subject of a Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, or Black Mirror episode. Call it the SciFi-Horror-Anthology Edict or some such.
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Adam Compton
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The idea that anything posted to the Internet lasts forever is critically mistaken. The Internet is _indelible_; it lacks a volitional "delete" operation to remove specific content you wish you hadn't posted. This does not imply a guarantee that any particular content will last forever.
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Adam Compton
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This is fascinating and well worth a read. I especially like the focus on accessibility features. Captions didn't show up by magic! The Deaf community had to fight for decades to get them. What else can we get that helps everybody by helping those who are worst served by the current world?
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Adam Compton
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Human consciousness exists to model other peoples' opinion of you so you can avoid getting kicked out of the tribe. Trying to model the opinion of (the entire world, especially people who hate you) is a category error and will quickly drive anyone insane, which explains a lot about the modern world
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Adam Compton
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I've read arguments that neurodivergent folks who have trouble with the non-verbal dimension of speech over-emphasize their diction and word choice to wring the most they can out of the communication tools they have access to. I don't know if there's studies on it but it makes sense to me.
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Adam Compton
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quote skeet with one of your fav films that isn't a hit
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Adam Compton
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So a Shepard Tone stock market? This is kinda genius!
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Adam Compton
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A cross between Tosh.0 and Shark Tank would be horrifying and also I would be completely unable to stop watching it
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Adam Compton
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This is @zitron.bsky.social 's Rot Economy thesis in a nutshell
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Pwnallthethings
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Rs: We gotta put biblical rules in schools Me: Holy shit! Like a debt jubilee every 7 years? Rs: Haha, no, not that one Me: like "you shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"? Rs: Hahaha not that one either Me: so, uh, which rules exactly? Rs: Oh, you know the ones
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Eb
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I wish folks didn't even think things like "I'm a good person". I wish folks knew that good isn't something you are. It's something you do.
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Adam Compton
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I apologize, but I have no idea what you mean. That doesn't seem to have anything to do with what I was saying.
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Adam Compton
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I think that's a shame, myself. We have _so little_ time to turn these kids into functioning, capable, adults, I always hate to see parents wasting it on deluding themselves that their kids will be six forever.
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Adam Compton
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I used to work at a school that didn't use content filters because they knew the kids would have to learn how to use the internet without them eventually, and they wanted to let the kids have their challenging experiences with teachers around to help them. I think about that a lot in raising my kids
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Adam Compton
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I don't know if this is at all correct, but if I look at the situation from the perspective of "there is no viable successor and Bibi will destroy the country rather than be forced out" the admin's stance makes more sense to me
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Adam Compton
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I think there's two kinds of social media: talking to your friends and Scrolling The Feed. One of them is great and healthy and the other is poison and it's a shame they're both in the same icon
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Adam Compton
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3: NBC 6: PBS 10: ABC affiliate 13: CBS affiliate 29: HSN 31: WB 40: Fox affiliate 58: NBC reruns/UPN
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Adam Compton
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I think there's two kinds of social media: talking to your friends and Scrolling The Feed. One of them is great and healthy and the other is poison and it's a shame they're both in the same icon
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kilgore trout
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I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it
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Adam Compton
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Name a song you hate: "Sex and Candy" by Marcy Playground There is very little I would not give up for the chance to go back in time and prevent that song from ever having existed
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Adam Compton
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I read recently about a teenager, confronted with a floppy disc, who replied "why did someone 3D-print a save icon?" 💀
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Adam Compton
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Texas is making a go of it
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Adam Compton
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How convenient, an article full of examples of history understanding this principle: pluralistic.net/2024/06/17/l...
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Adam Compton
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The obvious way to fix this is to make sure nobody can become that rich. History understood this principle (jubilee, usury being a biblical sin, noblesse oblige) and it takes constant effort from the people with all the money to keep everybody from remembering that they aren't supposed to have it!
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Adam Compton
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There's lots of scientific findings that power and wealth corrode the ability to experience empathy and take other peoples' perspectives. I think that explains most of the modern world: all the people in charge are _so_ rich that they can't comprehend the implications of their actions on anyone else
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Adam Compton
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People who are "good at computers" are not smarter than anyone else. They have just learned that you can't change the computer; you have to be able to change your idea about how the computer works to account for its observed behavior. Reality can't be wrong, no matter how impossible it should be
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Adam Compton
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People who are "good at computers" are not smarter than anyone else. They have just learned that you can't change the computer; you have to be able to change your idea about how the computer works to account for its observed behavior. Reality can't be wrong, no matter how impossible it should be
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