Useless twisting of our new technology
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I don't know that I've ever actually registered any of the lyrics within this song, save for "vurchahwuhh insayynatyy!"
Same, I'm not a native speaker though ...
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Tiktok and ChatGPT
wrote last edited by [email protected]True, showing my age
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Overworked, or refusing to work at all. No one's having sex. Their economy is further collapsing, their population is converging to the point of a death spiral. No one can afford to have a family.
They still like tech in Tokyo and pump out anime, though.
That just sounds like South Korea, which AFAIK is doing worse than Japan on most quality-of-life metrics - they work longer hours, have even less sex, population is shrinking even faster and AFAIK the common Koreans aren't exactly getting rich off it, either.
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What if very powerful people are literally using tech to warp people's minds on purpose?
You mean like gasp writing subverting books?!
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That’s gaffe though.
In french too.
And "make gaffe" (fait gaffe!) means watch out! when you are potentially doing a "gaffe".
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You mean like gasp writing subverting books?!
I mean like literally controlling who people talk to and how often, and without most people being aware of how much they are being controlled.
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I mean like literally controlling who people talk to and how often, and without most people being aware of how much they are being controlled.
Information always comes from somewhere, that's why they banned books (& "ideas") and promoted "their ideas". You can't talk about democracy, equality, ... if it hasn't been presented to you as an Idea. Old as the world!
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People have always complained about how new tech warps people’s minds. Like back in the day there were people saying the same thing about books when the printing press was invented
wrote last edited by [email protected]People have always complained about how new tech warps people’s minds.
Because it does.
Ask a 20yo to do simple math without using a calculator.
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Well we could start with a name...
It's a very common name. Jamiroquai.
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It's so strange for me, having been born in 1988, to hear someone not know who this guy is, and this song.
I fully understand that it's been just about 30 years since this came out, and there are multiple generations of kids that will never have heard it that are fully grown adults now.
Its just that this song was not only massive, one that everyone knew, but it lived on way past its release date, it was played on radio, tv, used in films and tv shows (silicon valley is a recent one of note). The same band also had a meme based on the film "napolean dynamite" with the song canned heat, which the main character did a dance to that made it into games such as world of warcraft and fortnite.
The band is a part of pop culture, and despite it all, there are still places in the world where people dont know instantly what this picture is from and who that is.
I get it. It just boggles my mind how vast the world is. Even 10 years ago there were people living in the north west of england asking who the beatles were. (Beatles are from liverpool in the north west of england and liverpool is littered with beatles murals, staturs and that kind of shit) its insane that anyone could not know who they are.
But hey ho. Just thinking out loud.
Even 10 years ago there were people living in the north west of england asking who the beatles were.
I once head 20yis on the bus saying how lucky that old guy Paul McCartney was for being in Rihanna video, like, it'll really be a boost for his career...
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Also, little kids are going around in Nirvana t-shirts, so they can can all the “before my time” natter.
little kids are going around in Nirvana t-shirts,
...and never listened to In Bloom.
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I miss the old internet. Usenet was magic.
Check out the gemini protocol and the small web.
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Overworked, or refusing to work at all. No one's having sex. Their economy is further collapsing, their population is converging to the point of a death spiral. No one can afford to have a family.
They still like tech in Tokyo and pump out anime, though.
Look to Japan to see what's the future like in the West a decade for now.
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I remember the that summer. Always wanted a Jamiroqoi hat
Always wanted a Jamiroqoi hat
You'll have to be way more specific than that.
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People have always complained about how new tech warps people’s minds. Like back in the day there were people saying the same thing about books when the printing press was invented
And they had a point. While the printing press (not books, those are way older) was a tool that could be used for good, many quickly realized that it gave propagandists a whole new set of tools to manipulate people with. Newspapers had a ridiculous amount of opinion-making power for quite a while there, they just got replaced by radio, TV, and then social media and now LLMs.
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Before the modern web, before Wikipedia, before pocket computers, Encarta was the shit!
yeah i spent so much time reading random shit on it. to be fair i already did that with physical encyclopedias so it was natural. but the fact that Encarta allowed what's now known as wiki surfing was next level for me.
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Reminds me of Serial Experiments Lain, an anime released in 1998 that talks about the power of social networks and how companies will compete to gain control of the internet. Some of the predictions are outstandingly good.
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We tried to cover it with my band, but it sounded really boring. Upon listening closely to it, I was surprised by how minimalist it actually is. I mean there's barely anything on the track! Some piano, some strings, and drum and bass of course.
It was a happy surprise to find that it's one of those songs that are carried by the pure energy of the vocalist, which makes it very tricky to cover unless you go a very lateral route and "re-genre" it.
It starts minimal, but it does progressively fill out.
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People have always complained about how new tech warps people’s minds.
Because it does.
Ask a 20yo to do simple math without using a calculator.
The more "helping" technology we rely on, the stupider we become.Ask a 20yo from the 70s to use Excel. Nobody could do that back then. How stupid.
It's an equally wrong argument.
People's skills adapt to what they need frequently. If they need something, they will learn how to do it and they will know how to do it. If they don't need it, they will lose it. Why would you want to keep maintaining a skill you don't need? It doesn't make you a better person.
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