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Perfectly Peculiar Pixels #9
đ§đ©đ© Sage Against The Machine!!!

Cinema Therapy taught me the phrase âItâs not your fault, but it is your responbilityâ. Jonathan referred to not cowering behind just letting trauma or mental conditions define you without you stepping up and doing something about it. Using machines to remove ourselves from a process, has made products repeatable, interchangeable, more precise, and more available to many. None of those improvements however, delegate the essence of our humanity to the machine.
Natural curiosity, is actively being substituted with the deus algorithmus. Its scientific origin and the dopamine express line give it unwarranted crediblity, and the ease of access is making people less curious, and less self reliable. I am not a ludite, and donât even own any clogs to throw into servers. I think cars are a wonderful form of transporation, but an overreliance on cars has produced unwalkable cities. Releiving our inquisitiveness into machine tentacles is already highlighting the intellectual rot, and decay we can all strive to weed out.
When you are wondering how we got here [4:33] | You can do something about short-form content |
Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist and media ecologist exploring the effects of new media on human interaction[1]. A long time ago, before the dark times, before the A.I. and TikTok, the web was a very hopeful place. A lot of us refer to it as if it was the old Wild West, and in ways relating to it being brought about by people working together as opposed to machines doing all the work, it was. It serves as a stark contrast to the dead internet theory, the disparity between which, to me, reads as an indicator of how far we strayed.
If youâre anything like me, you might consume about 10 short-form videos after the one you actually clicked to see, before noticing you did. While there is no substitute for discipline, one would hardly be thought of as undisciplined for knowing not to step into traffic. Since Googleâs effort of âredesigningâ YouTube gave us circular profile images, instead of e.g. folders for your subscriptions, Blocktube might be a tool youâd like to employ. Among a slew of other things, it can block short-form videos from ever being visible in your profile feed.
The phone without whistles, has actual bell! | Epicâs FREE game assembles the fruitarians! |
Justine Hauptâs creation is the physical manifestation of the fight against what people are identifying as a screen addiction. You may have run into e-ink screen phones with limited functionality, but the distance they go to, pales in comparison to the Rotary Un-Smartphone. Sadly, the unavailability of the original webpage, and comments on her YoutubeChannel, suggest that such a distance might have been a trek too far, when trying to produce it in-(her literal-)house.
Garden story reads tome like (more than) a good college try of mashing a lot of simple mechanics together under a charming pixel art veneer. From what I was able to gather, it seems like itâs a solo developer gme. As such, I think it might be a perfect case study for anyone into working their way up to sprawling, feature-laden RPGs.