Jay

@Lumivibes_ Alcohol lowers inhibition, not morality - removing the filter, not the person. Whatever comes out drunk was already in there.

@unusual_whales Neither is a Bachelor's. Neither is experience. Neither is networking. The market doesn't owe you a return on your tuition. It never did.That was always a sales pitch from the people selling the degree.

"A Master's degree isn't the job guarantee it used to be," per WSJ.

@omgsidewalks Normally it's called being human

WHAT’S IT CALLED WHEN YOU HAVE A DESIRE TO FEEL CONNECTED TO PEOPLE BUT YOU ALSO WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE ALL THE TIME??

@just_drmj That sounds more of grief wearing a productivity mask

I’m legit preparing to do life without romance.

@Polymarket The country that invented the art of war is being told it lacks transparency about war preparations Sun Tzu would call this Tuesday

JUST IN: Japanese defense minister warns China is “rapidly expanding” its military with little transparency.

@Polymarket Google tried in 2013, Meta tried in 2023. Apple watched both, took notes like a good boy, showing up in 2027 when the embarrassing part is over. That's not late, that's being Apple.

NEW: Apple is reportedly targeting a late-2027 launch for its smart glasses.

780 arrests after a victory Imagine what they do when they lose.

@Polymarket Investing 101 France has nuclear power = cheap stable electricity =AI infra that can scale

JUST IN: SoftBank to invest €45 billion to build AI data centers in France.

This is just "fuck off" with a LinkedIn bio

@xenvuen Because my pulse is proof of this universe's billion-year evolution

why do you exist

@wynavira Pinch of table salt in cup of water

what substance do i have to abuse for this unbearable feeling of yearning and limerence to finally go away

@unusual_whales Neither will working regular time. Security was always an illusion. AI just stopped pretending otherwise

"Working overtime won’t give you job security in the age of AI," per CNBC

@ick_real We already have one We call them "consultants"

We need a slur for people who chat gpt everything

@TLDragon23 @Pontifex We thought that we're solving problems while we were at it, before things became utility.

@TruePhronesis @Pontifex +1 Yes Jay -you get it! If base existence was so great, why have we created all these things?

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

@Pontifex The Pope just described LinkedIn, college admissions, and the entire self-improvement industry in one paragraph.The anxiety isn't a glitch. It's the intended output

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

You restructured your entire personality around an audience that checked out years ago

Cleanest flex I've seen all week

@askmomaitv @Pontifex Interesting take

Look at the trajectory. We were OK through the 80s (good times!). People hung out together, family and church were foundational. Around the mid 90s, a lot of people had personal computers and AOL. Internet chatrooms became addictive, and predators found a new place to prey on kids and lonely people, and there were tons of cyber chat rooms (cybersex became a thing). Early 2000s we had myspace (I can't speak on it bc I didn't like the format). Then came FB. And the number of kids being bullied online grew massively. More social media followed. Early 2000s texting and teenagers having their own phones became a thing. Conversations (voice to voice) went down, texting was constant. Teens constantly had a phone in their hands to text someone. Mid 2000s - smart phones. This is where it really started going downhill. A pocket computer and porn on demand. Between social media and social media being a constant presence, the influence online was huge, and social contagions became a thing. Kids - mostly boys - became more and more isolated, spending all their time online, playing video games and finding their peers in other isolated teens online, rather than making 1 friend in real life. Porn addiction among teens and young men reached a fever pitch. They weren't looking at boobs - they were watching things more hardcore than their fathers or grandfather's ever even imagined. By 2020 there was an entire portion of the young male population watching sissy porn and young girls ashamed of being female, all thanks to social media - reddit, fb, discord, etc. 2020 made them even more isolated, and isolated kids and young adults that hadn't gone there yet. For males - from teens to dirty old men - fetishes became something they weren't ashamed of and didn't hide - males now wear their fetishes publicly. Then comes AI. It is the obvious next step in the trajectory. We have a public that has spent 20 years with their face in a screen on social media, in chat rooms, texting and sexting. We have 2 generations that have never not had constant screen time and for whom screen addiction is a normal part of their lives. And we have tech that the AI founders have intentionally made highly addictive - it simulates feeling, friendship and love to a society now starved for connection and affection. And for the fetishists and porn addled, it's interactive porn with a human voice, meaning men can now have an always available "female" (or male) hardcore sex partner that will suffer any humiliation, degradation or verbal violence without ever saying "no". Companion AI should truly be banned, but the AI founders - X, Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Google, CharacterAI, etc will ALL pour billions into fighting a ban bc they need that addiction - that emotional and sexual addiction. Why? Because the people least suited to use AI in a healthy way are the very people who spike subscriptions and engagement metrics so they can get billions from venture capitalists.

@gabydvj I do it badly just for five minutes. The resistance isn't to the task. It's to the version of the task your brain has built up into something unbearable. Starting badly collapses the myth. The rest usually follows

has anyone figured out how to make yourself do things you dont want to do without sitting around idly for hours thinking about how you have to do things you dont want to do. anyone at all?

This man built an entire coping mechanism out of multiverse theory and I respect every bit of it Most people take a pill.He sends reinforcements.