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fauux

9 months ago

I've added a public poll to my front page: Are screens a kind of black mirror that trap us in self-reflection like Narcissus, or are they windows that connect us to something bigger?

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capstasher 9 months ago

Phones are scrying mirrors. On the other side of them lie nothing but demons. Computer desktops with a crt were portals to anywhere you aimed them. The rest lie somewhere inbetween. TV's are funhouse mirrors that distort reality. Modern computer screens are empty husks and anything you "see" in them is projected from within

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fauux 9 months ago

@capstasher: Anyone can literally try this at home with a simple polarising filter. At certain angles the bright screen turns black, while the rest of the world is bright, leaving you only with a sad reflection. My intuition tells me parts of our subconsciousness cannot perceive this false light, and only observe our reflection.

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fauux 9 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoHNI-Sr-t8

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fauux 9 months ago

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koilwood 9 months ago

They're like amplifiers that conjure those secret sides of ourselves. That secret darkness is corrupted even further and then we are left with two identities, often swallowed by the realm of mirrors and noise.

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zazilicious 9 months ago

I think they have the capacity to be both depending upon how you use them. Social media platforms that are designed to show you what an algorithm thinks you would want to see will likely keep you in a feedback loop of reflecting the worst parts of yourself, whereas non-algorithmic online spaces that directly involve connection first and foremost do not do that, and in fact can be a source of good source of connectio

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fauux 9 months ago

@zazilicious: I agree that there are good and healthy spaces online, but I suspect that the medium (screens) we use to access these spaces affect us in many negative ways. I wonder if anyone has done studies on screen addiction, online and offline behaviour using normal LCD screens vs unlit E-ink screens?

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fauux 9 months ago

@zazilicious: I'm just saying "Lucifer," in Latin, translates to "light bringer". Through this light portal (screens) we are promised endless enlightenment, all you have to do is pass the gate of light.

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fauux 9 months ago

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/blue-light-has-a-dark-side

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capstasher 9 months ago

I fully believe CRT, despite being joked about as a cancer tube, was better than LED. And certainly unlit LCD was not bad in the slightest (Try this if you can: On an LCD device with adjustable back/frontlight, turn it off and use the sun. It feels as it should be.) If anything at least the CRT had a built in screentime limiter: your eyes would start hurting and that was your signal to stop.

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capstasher 9 months ago

Modern screens, especially with blue light filters, are made to be as pleasant on the eye as possible, however that doesn't make them "not bad", let alone "good". I think e-Ink displays have great potential. Wish they were better used. Maybe I'll grab one to experiment

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fauux 9 months ago

Lucifer promise us endless knowledge through the screens, but what is the point of knowledge if you lose the ability to process information because you've wrecked your ability to concentrate and comprehend? https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/january-2024/screen-test-paper-still-wins-in-the-reading-stakes

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genosadness 9 months ago

They are a one-way mirror held up to an abyss. Problem is, we don't know which side of the mirror is facing us.

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omnipresence 9 months ago

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ongezell

9 months ago

Magatards wake up, it's time to suck circumsied cock and go to war for israel

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ongezell 9 months ago

tbh, demotards would also go to war for israel, that's a social contract you have being born in the US However, let us not deny how much Republicans suck zionist cock, they are the ones who suck the most!

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ongezell 9 months ago

They suck it so good it leaves their mouth shining, they are the shoeshiners of cock sucking

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sugarfantasies 9 months ago

truth

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jatmoz 9 months ago

It's fascinating watching a whole country, nay, a whole race, ragebait the rest of the world so flawlessly

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rbuchanan 9 months ago

Republican'ts are truly the most politically obtuse people alive. Only they wouldn't suspect that MAGA (MIGA) is just reheated neoconservatism in limitless thrall to everyone's favorite parasitic, genocidal second-world fake country.

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ongezell

9 months ago

Tel Aviv explosions asmr + cat purring is a good combo to sleep to

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10 months ago

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10 months ago

Thanks for the kind words on my guestbook, hope you're doing alright too!

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schizopunk-media 10 months ago

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daliwali 10 months ago

USA has long been a cryptocracy #blessed #patriot #fed

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schizopunk-media 10 months ago

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daliwali 10 months ago

AI can't collapse the wave function, but it can mark you as a targeted individual for govt gangstalking and you wind up disappeared. better eat the zogslop and take your krazy pills get back in the wage cage if you know what's good for you.

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divinicide 10 months ago

AI will never replace the holy role of being a eunuch for Bezos. I heard they're hiring new ones.

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schizopunk-media 10 months ago

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fauux

10 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWkEBfy1uhM mood

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hermitage 10 months ago

RIP sadgrl

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ongezell

10 months ago

I've seen the fuss about that AI stuff google released and looking at the results, I can 100% say it still looks like AI slop

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ongezell 10 months ago

I don't think the whole conundrum about AI is that it can produce art that is on par with human art, the truth is humans are just getting more and more used to slop and objective souless stuff, we are just conditining ourselves to be less and less connected to those intricate human values you know, beauty, critical thinking. we just getting more and more retarded as a collective consuming whatever is feed to us.

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daliwali 10 months ago

Voight-Kampff test but it tests your humanity by finding out if you can discern LLM from human output.

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divinicide 10 months ago

I will make 300000 shrimp-jesus paintings. Just you wait!

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