blaming ai for giving birth to slop is wrong. imo slop came to life the moment we started treating everything in our lives as content. or the moment we were forced to. for example the idea that people are being watched is what gave birth to “acting”, not the camera or the tv.🌹

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the reason i love finite things is that finitude is what makes you intentional about the time you spend with something. it ends. we scroll endlessly because there's no "end" to content. we can consume as much as we want. but if we were given only 10 posts a day, i think we'd be more careful with what we consume, and how we scroll and that limit might be what helps us care again.🌹

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another piece of myself arrived to another beautiful soul today! makes me so happy to see a thing i worked on so hard, and put so much soul into being welcomed and embrace by poeple from all over the world! thank you so much @verafaye for your support, and for joining my protest against not feeling anything!🌹

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have you ever been part of a group chat that started inviting more people in, and it suddenly lost all meaning for you? that's one of the best examples, to me, of how something scaled beyond what it was designed for loses the reason it existed in the first place🌹

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what digital media taught me is that if the culture isn't ready for something, it won't get adopted. the infrastructure for digital ownership has been here for a long time, but it only has value to a handful of people. we're still not past the phase of paying for something you can "own" for free.🌹

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if we keep creating things that extract value instead of creating it, i'm afraid we'll never be able to move on from the things we hate which are the ones we have now.🌹

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i believe we've never cared less about anything than we do now, and i used to believe it was fewness that made me care, but it wasn't, it was actually the care itself, and i believe limits may be one of the only ways we can still preserve care in a world that wants to turn everything into something to be consumed. but at the same time, one can still choose to stop consuming something even without any scarcity, and to me, that is the ideal i wish existed🌹 https://thehiddeni.substack.com/p/how-do-we-create-limits-that-help

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if we turn everything into content what parts of our life are still ours if every moment is pre-shaped by how it might be seen?🌹

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i would have never imagined that a thought of mine could inspire a poem, let alone one as beautiful as this i love how much it resonates not just with the original thought, but also with so many of the things i’m advocating for a fantastic piece by jacque!! spending some time with it may truly help us in “finding /the-hidden-i in we and us” thank you jacque, for this piece!🌹

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imo the real power of a curator is emotional intelligence. the algorithm shows a flood of things on the feed, but only we can decide what's true and more importantly what's true to us. i'd also say emotional intelligence is a core influence on taste.🌹

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one of the best decisions i've made in my life is following God, and even if at times it is hard, i realized that everything is happening for my own good. i've never felt such peace, finally having someone who's actually looking after me...🌹

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last week i had a discussion with a good friend whether things were always this bad and we just weren't paying attention back in high-school (like 10 years ago), or whether it's genuinely worse now. i believe that they weren't as bad as they are now. what do you think?🌹

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the people who still make the internet cool are the ones with multiple interests, talking about all of them at once and doing it regardless of what the algorithm thinks about them🌹

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i used to avoid things like "!!!" in my essays because i thought it looked bad but then i realized this is how i write. this is how i can emphasize something without speaking it. same with lowercase. it's simply how i write all my drafts and i stopped caring about whether it's "right" or not. the only time i use caps is when i actually mean CAPS or when imessage autocorrects me🌹

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i'm 27 and imo my generation grew up as social media stopped being social and became interest driven and we started to shape ourselves around it + status came with it though now it is called attention but i don't think we want any of the things we are chasing and only want what we were told they give us and since they don't give us that promised happiness, the promise itself is the mirage🌹

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