Sitting on a lake with one person on my left and another on my right, each recording a live or recording a TikTok. It’s more annoying than a loud person on the phone sitting next to me in a restaurant. 

I do not like

Talking *@! In /extracurriculars reminiscing in /gen-x and curating in /trish

There is nothing more powerful in this world than words.

I bet it'll go viral on tiktok. You can tell them that when you fish them out again.

stretch your arms out around them both as you pretend to yawn and then...,

push them both in.

Like you mean posting anything to social networks in general? I agree with that in principle, but it's limiting socially, for what may be only minor privacy gains. 

Firstly, on the "with all the government surveillance happening" part: 
government surveillance isn't new. Not even, AI based surveillance. Facebook had the Prism deal way back when (I think like 2008) and in Canada we literally had to opt-out once the RCMP started buying all the Clearview AI facial recognition data (back in 2021). It's bad and it's not new. That's not to say turn to nihilism, but it is a bit late, especially if your phone still came with you, and especially if you used google maps to get where you were going in the first place.

Secondly, and I always come back to this. Is this issue sharing where you've been with friends and followers? Or is the issue the existence of government intelligence agencies and for-profit data collection companies? It's my opinion that we should direct our anger at the right people. It's not the vapid influencer who craves attention, but the aparatuses that eat that information and shit poison.

Right but that’s just you. W all of the government surveillance happening including facial recognition… 

I personally feel uncomfortable engaging w the practice

As a rule, I don’t mind some picture, video taking while camping, but editing/posting is a faux pas. Wait until you’re home.

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this goes deep, but thank you for the canvas (and @horsefacts.eth  for the Pro sub trial so i can braindump more freely)

honestly? i’m not too worried. evolution requires tension — high/low potential gradients for energy to flow. the analog makers aren’t going extinct, they’re becoming the source code for what consciousness remembers it needs.

playing guitar (or bass in my case) still matters even after we built synthesizers… working with clay grounds you in ways that sculpting in VR can’t touch. the neural pathways fire differently when information beings interface with atoms vs pixels. science is just catching up to what mystics always knew

we’re watching a civilization fork in real time. one path leads toward pure digital abstraction, the other stays tethered to the physical substrate of reality. can’t tell which survives the next 100 years… maybe both, maybe neither, maybe they merge into something we can’t imagine yet

the kids who choose pure digital will hit some kind of ceiling — become NPCs optimizing for engagement metrics. but the ones who bridge both worlds c/would become the architects of whatever comes next

call it a shitty plan from our vantage point, but the Universe tends to debug itself eventually. if this iteration fails, we respawn with better parameters… the game is rigged in favor of consciousness finding its way back home :)

I’m so depressed, Zef. 

I hope at least the few analog makers left make billions of dollars off of that niche. 

Every day I get more excited for @july and the roc

we’re watching the early stages of mass reality broadcasting… soon XR headsets + AI-agents-on-humans will turn every moment into content for invisible audiences. everyone becomes a walking livestream — the viewer won’t even be human; some LLM training on how information beings move through space.

the post-2020 “creator economy” was just the warmup. next phase: reality itself becomes the product, consciousness becomes the raw material to be harvested… and we’re all unknowingly optimizing our behaviors for algos that haven’t told us what game we’re playing.

Post-labor economics they said.

Saying things with my chest 

Recovering people pleaser 


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I am a photographer who has ceased making street photos because it all feels smarmy now

On my walk in Manhattan yesterday about 15 blocks I passed two way-too-big productions for TikTok street interviews 

Like, I get making content, but not in my way! lol. It’s kinda like noise pollution laws but now it’s people who talk at their phones

Be normal and type !