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17 months ago

Mass Psychosis - How an Entire Population becomes Mentally Ill.

This video talks about the decent into madness, as an individual, and as a society. It then discusses totalitarianism as one such mass psychosis that seems to repeat throughout history, and even ends on a positive note with some suggestions of how to reverse the mass psychosis of totalitarianism while we're still in it's early stages. #fskynet_💬

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M

#MassPsychosis_💬 #MentalHealth_💬 #video_💬
#groupthink_💬

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Anonymous

19 months ago

"IN-SHADOW" A Modern Odyssey - Animated Short Film

This is a very poetic visual description of the decline of the USA. A lot of the themes are global, like technological hi-jacking our minds, social media profiteering destroying the social contract, and various critiques of various industries and the deep pockets behind those industries that are pulling the strings. It could be called a visually stunning history of America, with emphasis on the more recent state of affairs.

This has no talking, just creepy background music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j800SVeiS5I

#video_💬 #capitalism_💬 #dystopia_💬

#fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

20 months ago

#fskynet_💬

tagged: #captialism_💬 #banks_💬 #meme_💬

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Anonymous

20 months ago

The sooner you do something, the more likely it is that you'll get it done.
#fskynet_💬

#everyday_💬 #advice_💬 #timemanagement_💬

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Anonymous

20 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

21 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

22 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

23 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

26 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

27 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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