1666 || death is the room, not the elephant
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” James Baldwin"Whatever goes up must come down....
12 Jan 10min
1665 || how to not fear your death
You cannot imagine what it would be like to be dead, because death is an absence of existence. There is, literally, nothing to imagine – because nothingness itself cannot be imagined. There is no pers...
11 Jan 11min
1664 || social media brings out our worst
Read this today's original source, here."When you’re overwhelmed with information, you don’t think deeply about it; you have to process it very quickly. So, you tend to process it through existing bia...
10 Jan 7min
1666 || an online AYCE buffet, what are you eating?
If the internet is an AYCE buffet of unlimited, endless options, there’s bound to be items you find disgusting, that will make you physically ill. There’s also bound to be items you find delicious AND...
9 Jan 11min
1665 || what if the act of "choosing" is enough
I accidentally ritualized something that is typically mundane, and that, in itself, is a magical and empowering act.Now, as much as I want to push society towards more “analog” and “slow” options beca...
8 Jan 8min
1661 || being "above" it, means being apart from it.
"It feels good to look down on people until you realize that being above society is also being apart from it. It pulls you deeper into your own home, your own phone." - quoted from Lily Alexandre's Yo...
7 Jan 10min
1660 || surveillance makes us docile
How do we feel like we’re not being watched, when we are being watched?Studies show that citizens tolerate being surveilled, and eventually stop thinking about it. But we tend to act more docile + rel...
6 Jan 11min
1659 || psychic burden of being surveilled
Cameras "take" and "capture" reality, but even when we know it's manufactured, we tend to trust what we can see. Today, we talk about the historical and psychological implications of photography. Watc...
5 Jan 10min
