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natural next step but also marks an inflection point, explicit acknowledgement of how Netflix's role has shifted from pipe to tastemaker over the years; most people are happy to be told what to consume, curation is difficult. they're prob selling prioritization in the queue too

me scrolling the TL, greebled and caffienated
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RT @auguste_lefou
AFTER TOMORROW 👁️

made with @ov_eduard / 2 years ago
twitter.com/auguste_lefou/stat

thru this tension we can hold our psyches upright; a sort of psychological tensegrity, the contradictions generating our internal supports through their opposition. it is not an easy balance to strike, nor is everyone capable; but if you manage, you reap psychospiritual benefits.

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man's drive to explain the world around him, to seek patterns, simplification, & causality, to create & share these ideas w/ each other, generates entities more powerful than any individual; this is how an egregore acquires agency, a narrative given life

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RT @pee_zombie
this is how an egregore is born, emerging from many minds holding the same polarizing belief; this meme directs their actions, & these many small vectors, now aligne…
twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/

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in the (excellent) comic Gunnerkrigg Court, we see the trickster god Coyote claim precisely this; that he has no existence outside of the imaginings of humans, that he is an egregore generated from our collective memes; and yet, causality is attributed to his actions.

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drop a picture of you that looks like an album cover

(don't look into their eyes)
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RT @DarbraDawn
drop a picture of you that looks like an album cover

(Yes it’s industrial girlpop) twitter.com/mechanical_monk/st t.co/uBkDX9FY2e
twitter.com/DarbraDawn/status/

not everyone is ready to be taught this lesson, but if you're open to it, learning just how arbitrary and made up all your concepts and perceptions are can be life-changing

chair discourse is the best mundane parallel of this imo & you can see how uncomfortable it makes people
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RT @kitsune_temple
one of the first times i did shrooms, i was so wrapped up in my occulty bullshit. i lit a of candles around me, performed the stele of…
twitter.com/kitsune_temple/sta

better late than never eh?
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RT @cstross
I live in fear of getting fan mail from Grimes saying that she read “Accelerando” and it changed her life when she was 12.
twitter.com/cstross/status/144

still a better tweet embed experience than most websites
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RT @pbprot
You guys will never believe where someone posted this
twitter.com/pbprot/status/1442

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