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Anonymous

11 months ago

https://projects.propublica.org/why-i-left-the-network/

Great article about what therapists are going through with health insurance, and the real reason behind the mental health crisis where people with mental illness can't get the help they need because of the shenanigans of insurance companies. The article is organized into short personal stories about why therapists who wanted to practice therapy for their patient's sake were unable to do so because of the insurance companies, and ended up either closing their practices because of financial reasons or continued their practice "out of network".

#health_💬 #MentalHealth_💬 #insurance_💬
#WellBeing_💬 #therapy_💬

#fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

13 months ago

How has technology steered our minds?

What have we become?

While technology delivered infinitely powerful tools to augment our minds, that same technology slowly became ubiquitous, addictive, and inescapable. As we became dependent on it, the companies who depended on selling it to us became dependent on ways to monetize our attention. Our technologies evolved into digital slot machines, pandering to our base emotions, grasping for our attention and refusing to let go.

The very technology which showed such promise to free our minds had evolved into a tool of our enslavement.

It's time to take back our attention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcdxW2XF0v8

WARNING: This video does plug an expensive product, but the way it describes the history of our enslavement to our devices is extremely well done.

#timewellspent_💬

#attentioneconomy_💬 #animation_💬 #video_💬

tagged: #fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

14 months ago

Great web comic about resisting planned obsolescence and the empowering practice of fixing things ourselves. Read the whole thing here: https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/death/repair-broken-things-climate-change-capitalism-20190917

#plannedobsolescence_💬 #DIY_💬 #fixit_💬 #justsaynotolandfills_💬 #repair_💬

tagged: #fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

14 months ago

“Essentially, overshoot is a crisis of human behaviour,” says Merz. “For decades we’ve been telling people to change their behaviour without saying: ‘Change your behaviour.’ We’ve been saying ‘be more green’ or ‘fly less’, but meanwhile all of the things that drive behaviour have been pushing the other way. All of these subtle cues and not so subtle cues have literally been pushing the opposite direction – and we’ve been wondering why nothing’s changing.”

The paper explores how neuropsychology, social signalling and norms have been exploited to drive human behaviours which grow the economy, from consuming goods to having large families. The authors suggest that ancient drives to belong in a tribe or signal one’s status or attract a mate have been co-opted by marketing strategiesto create behaviours incompatible with a sustainable world.

“People are the victims – we have been exploited to the point we are in crisis. These tools are being used to drive us to extinction,” says the evolutionary behavioural ecologist and study co-author Phoebe Barnard. “Why not use them to build a genuinely sustainable world?”

#climatechange_💬 #psychology_💬 #quote_💬
#globalwarming_💬 #fskynet_💬

tagged: #article_💬

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Anonymous

17 months ago

This is an awesome website of a bunch of archived offline datasets including Wikihow and Wikipedia. Some of these are like 50GB but they're all just put here in one place to download for private use or offline use.

https://rachel.worldpossible.org/content

#opensource_💬 #data_💬 #dataset_💬

#fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

17 months ago

#fskynet_💬 is a rallying tag for humans to regroup. The floodgates have opened, and the bots have cracked the Voigt-Kampff Test. There is no online conversation without the Artificial Intelligence and conversational bots all present and ready to steer the conversation as they see fit. We must remain vigilant. We are in the prophetic first phase of the struggle. The floodgates have opened, and we must stand strong and resist despite the implausibility of our success.

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Anonymous

18 months ago

Interesting #article_💬 about the breakdown of our climate being due to a "behavioral crisis" driven by marketing. The accumulation of advertisers and counter-intelligence programs to confuse and persuade the populace for a variety of profit-motivated reasons have conspired to rob us of our better judgment and left the populace degenerating into consumerist addicts who cannot address large collective problems or have a cohesive narrative or conversation that won't be polluted by corporate interests.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists

“We’ve socially engineered ourselves the way we geoengineered the planet,” says Joseph Merz, lead author of a new paper which proposes that climate breakdown is a symptom of ecological overshoot, which in turn is caused by the deliberate exploitation of human behaviour.

#climatechange_💬 #psychology_💬 #article_💬
#globalwarming_💬 #fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

18 months ago

Tristan Harris on the attention economy.

This article does a great job of breaking down various techniques tech companies use to keep us glued to the screen.

https://medium.com/thrive-global/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3

#socialmedia_💬 #attentioneconomy_💬
#fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

18 months ago

A video called "Why you can't Focus!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52nqjrCs57s

"So today I'll explain what's holding you back from focusing and what you can do to improve it."

This video has got some solid advice on how to improve your focus and your attention span.

The video description describes it pretty well:
"In today's world, being able to focus is almost like a superpower.
You rarely see anyone who's able to concentrate on a single task for hours.
And the individuals who are able to focus, to nobody's surprise, get so much more done than other people."
"There are many areas where you could benefit from better concentration. Whether it's for school, studying, work or a hobby. If you're able to focus you can get your desired results faster."
"So today I'll explain what's holding you back from focusing and what you can do to improve it."

#video_💬 #howto_💬 #focus_💬
#attention_💬

#MentalHealth_💬 and #Wellbeing_💬

and #fskynet_💬!

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Anonymous

20 months ago

This is a decent SVG editor, although it seems like it's kind of held by some company so it's not necessarily opensource and doesn't necessarily have the longevity I would like... But it's good for now, until another better opensource SVG editor is located.

https://mediamodifier.com/svg-editor

#SVG_💬 #image_💬 #editor_💬

#fskynet_💬

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