Morning prayer recited by Robert Louis Stevenson to his household at Villa Vailima, his last residence in Samoa

Stumbling upon - The History of the Web Something like a channel changer, for the web. That's what the idea was at first. But it led to a whole new path of discovery that even the site's creators couldn't have predicted.

I miss that internet

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Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out

"...social media is less like a neutral reflection of society and more like a funhouse mirror. It amplifies the loudest and most extreme voices while muting the moderate, the nuanced and the boringly reasonable. (...) Just 10% of users produce roughly 97% of political tweets."

Hope is a risk; especially when you’ve known what it is to dream for better and only be met with the tyranny of degradation, greed, and violent appetites. But despair is a concession. Be careful of who you let regulate your dreaming. Always remember who benefits from our hopelessness.

'The day I went to prison, I got my life back' For many people, receiving a jail sentence would be the worst thing that ever happened to them. For one woman it was almost a relief.

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""Frankly, we have imported antisemitism with the big numbers of migrants we have within the last 10 years." German Chancellor Friedrich Merz blamed the rise in antisemitism on migrants, calling it a "terrible challenge" for the country."

If you stop thinking that Germany's response to anything Israel is about Holocaust guilt and instead about rewriting German history, you'd understand German politics better. 🧵

“Going forward, I think taste and style are more valuable than ever before. In an era where we’re able to rapidly generate cheap low quality content or software at a scale we’ve never seen before, we will need people with taste in the mix”
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Although I keep coming back, I don't see that as a failure. Sometimes it's okay to be scammed. It's important to me though that I do it intentionally and consciously.

Following this, the reason I get back to them is, most of the time, about the feeling that I might get something valuable out of them *this time*, especially when something significant is happening that I want to follow or when I'm too tired to evaluate what is trashy fun and what is quality fun.

Maybe part of the reason why I get back to those apps over and over again is because I forget the feeling when I decided to remove those apps. Then I re-experience them following the cycle ad-infinitum. That feeling is something like the realisation of getting scammed: I pay more than I receive.

Usually I'm not too aware of how much time I'm spending on apps and how much I get back, in terms of stuff I care about: learning something interesting, being inspired by something or someone, some ideas to think more about or having "quality" fun.

Removed all social media apps from my phone v4124. Let's see how long this one takes!