Dopamine has many functions in the brain and thinking that the problem is the natural function of the body generally doesn't fix anyone. With regard to social media, a lot of times the solution is "do things that raise your attention span and inoculate you from being locked into short and micro-form media" rather than "avoid things that bring you pleasure." The latter, generally, does not improve the quality of your interactions-- you have to do *healthy* things that give you dopamine. Otherwise you're just re-enforcing the behavior loop by "detoxing" and then immediately getting a deeper reliance on your fix of micro ads and micro content to bring you enjoyment.

Posting broadly just doesn't have the same allure because of how easy it is for stuff to leave your audience (for most people, close family and friends.) Having your posts be seen by people who don't have the context to understand them is just a recipe for misery. Even if you don't mind explaining your life or background to a stranger, it sure is boring. Twitter circles were a great feature to avoid that for sensitive posts, and it's a shame Elon killed them.

I've found Bluesky scratches the same itch with pretty good vibe control. Most importantly default bluesky locks out *everyone* from reading posts that are to or from people who blocked each other-- essentially you can delete anyone's reply to you if you don't like it. This makes it basically useless as a platform to anyone who is trying to get clout from fighting, and it's a lot more chill as a result. (Except for people without the self control to not engage with people who raise their blood pressure; obviously they don't benefit from the anti-harassment design at all since they purposefully avoid using it.)

The venue doesn't care if they're banned from other venues, venues cannot attend one another. An individual artist can't really set up shop in one city and play shows in one venue. People's tastes don't work that way. You have to go to big cities where people actually are and where cartels run the venues.

it's like when an old tv dies, and you can only see things from the snow dimension because it's locked into messages from a higher plane.

I remember when I had enough hope for the future to be a capitalist. Good times.

Regardless of AI it's pretty common for generational shifts to displace workers as some excuse or another justifies terminating higher paid employees in favor of lesser ones, hence why I don't personally know anyone on the verge of having "the largest generational wealth transfer in history" affect them. For example jobs for people trained as musicians for movie theaters were replaced by people who did other musical work, but they weren't filled by the same people. Those people just had reduced career prospects for the rest of their life. Similarly with air traffic controllers who "reskilled" after Reagan. They just became immiserated, game over. Economic life ends before physical life, although there's sadly a significant correlation.

It's kind of ridiculous that people get involved in these astro-turf campaigns to like be against kittens or solar power or salt substitute or whatever, not because it doesn't make sense, but because basically only the Micheal Bloomberg presidential campaign really paid enough money to justify the fake enthusiasm. I think hucksters deserve better. You're worth more than the pleasure of just pissing off liberals.

ultimately employers are in a tough spot economically because the cost of living crisis has erased their leverage, otherwise that strategy would work just fine, the way it did the past 30 years.

you can threaten to fire someone, but if you aren't offering a wage at rent-replacement levels that's not actually going to be sufficient leverage to change behavior.

wow that's wild that investigating the non-US social media firm at a time when US ones are floundering is really important to national security

Sure, they could. And if I knew they were recording I would immediately close the call. When someone tries to take my picture in public do you think I just shrug my shoulders and say "Well, there are probably other creeps trying to take my picture without me knowing it." ? Of course not.

Anyhow, I don't have too many reasons to suspect people I don't know to record me though, since I am also unknown to them. Comparatively, Riot already has a large amount of information about every player, and actually has the infrastructure to keep everyone's calls for a significant period of time.

I mean, I'm glad they tell us about it, but I will simply never use something that permanently records my voice. Not worth a game, and if I'm playing with friends then I can just use 3rd party voice.

Honestly kind of cool that France forces journalists to speak in codewords like they're trying to hide a national addiction to fortnite skins.

my man signed up for a $1 billion walk-away clause so someone could tell him about latest tweets

If I was concerned about Coronavirus I would simply not be a second rate nuclear power.

That's incredibly unlikely since most doctors don't want to be seen as performing assisted suicides.