#nastyfew — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nastyfew, aggregated by home.social.
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Bunker as a metaphor
There is something revealing about the way powerful people talk about our future, when they imagine crisis, they imagine their escape. A luxury bunker, fortress border, a private city, a rocket or an #AI cloud. A place for the self chosen few to survive while everyone else is left outside to die. This is the "logic" of the #deathcult we all worship, if the world is breaking, protect yourself rather than repair the world. It should be obverse to us that this is is not really any actual plan […] -
Bunker as a metaphor
There is something revealing about the way powerful people talk about our future, when they imagine crisis, they imagine their escape. A luxury bunker, fortress border, a private city, a rocket or an #AI cloud. A place for the self chosen few to survive while everyone else is left outside to die. This is the "logic" of the #deathcult we all worship, if the world is breaking, protect yourself rather than repair the world. It should be obverse to us that this is is not really any actual plan […] -
#nastyfew is a useful strong hashtag to talk and organize about the last group.
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Why “common sense” is a cage – we don’t have to worship this mess
The problem of #dotcons is attention capture, its why #digitaldetox is a part of the #OMN toolbox. So lets look at why we need to act on the digital drug problem. The everyday digital drug fix starts with a notification, you pick up your phone because you get a notification. You unlock it, check the notification. Then maybe you look at one thing, then another, then another and suddenly an hour have disappeared. You didn't decide to spend the next hour staring at short videos selected by a […]https://hamishcampbell.com/why-common-sense-is-a-cage-we-dont-have-to-worship-this-mess/
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Why “common sense” is a cage – we don’t have to worship this mess
The problem of #dotcons is attention capture, its why #digitaldetox is a part of the #OMN toolbox. So lets look at why we need to act on the digital drug problem. The everyday digital drug fix starts with a notification, you pick up your phone because you get a notification. You unlock it, check the notification. Then maybe you look at one thing, then another, then another and suddenly an hour have disappeared. You didn't decide to spend the next hour staring at short videos selected by a […]https://hamishcampbell.com/why-common-sense-is-a-cage-we-dont-have-to-worship-this-mess/
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Why “common sense” is a cage – we don’t have to worship this mess
The problem of #dotcons is attention capture, its why #digitaldetox is a part of the #OMN toolbox. So lets look at why we need to act on the digital drug problem. The everyday digital drug fix starts with a notification, you pick up your phone because you get a notification. You unlock it, check the notification. Then maybe you look at one thing, then another, then another and suddenly an hour have disappeared. You didn't decide to spend the next hour staring at short videos selected by a […]https://hamishcampbell.com/why-common-sense-is-a-cage-we-dont-have-to-worship-this-mess/
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Why “common sense” is a cage – we don’t have to worship this mess
The problem of #dotcons is attention capture, its why #digitaldetox is a part of the #OMN toolbox. So lets look at why we need to act on the digital drug problem. The everyday digital drug fix starts with a notification, you pick up your phone because you get a notification. You unlock it, check the notification. Then maybe you look at one thing, then another, then another and suddenly an hour have disappeared. You didn't decide to spend the next hour staring at short videos selected by a […]https://hamishcampbell.com/why-common-sense-is-a-cage-we-dont-have-to-worship-this-mess/
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Disciplined curiosity beats IQ, Oxford
There is a persistent myth pushed in our culture that intelligence - high IQ, academic credentials, elitist education - leads naturally to clear thinking. My organic experience suggests the opposite, what matters is disciplined, skeptical, freethinking curiosity. Without that, intelligence simply becomes a tool for defending whatever assumptions people already hold. This is one of the reasons many academic environments produce people who are, bluntly, credulous. Not because they lack […]https://hamishcampbell.com/disciplined-curiosity-beats-iq-oxford/