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Fear of new things in the past. Exploring technophobia and moral panic through the ages. Curated by @louisanslow
Joined October 2015
Any conversation around banning smartphones in schools really ought give historical context, such as mentioning the great beeper panic of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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In 1846 Pope Gregory XVI said early railroads would:. “increase the poverty of the population, threaten the.security of states and, internally, to be harmful to entrepreneurs and facilitate the smuggling and introduction of foreign goods”.via @paleofuture
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Do people yearn for a past when they didn't yearn for the past? A time when they were young and hopeful, free from the gravity of nostalgia and cynicism about the present and future.
Nostalgic for the 90s? Violent crime was far higher. Republicans shut down the government. The Rodney King riots killed 63 people. Genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda. The end of the Cold war decimated many industries. But @mattyglesias points out the most positive feature: the.
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RT @sapinker: Nostalgic for the 90s? Violent crime was far higher. Republicans shut down the government. The Rodney King riots killed 63 pe….
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RT @PessimistsArc: mRNA vaccine pioneers just won the nobel prize. Their initial paper was rejected by the big journals. .
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Bitcoin’s on fire at $112K! Time to flip the charts on BTCC!.Exploring Cryptocurrency with Jaren Jackson Jr.🏀.
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RT @ziontree: When you find yourself longing for the past, read old literature. It meets the need for nostalgia, and doubles as a reality c….
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RT @PessimistsArc: In 1902 a Health Commissioner trolled anti-vaxxers by inviting them to man smallpox quarantine station: . “Hall says tha….
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People are devastated NYT mini crossword was put behind a paywall. Once upon a time the NYT looked down its nose at word games, refusing to put them in the paper.
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
The following newsletter is syndicated from a 2022 BigThink.com article we wrote inspired by The New York Times acquisition of Wordle. In April it was revealed subscribers to The New York Times...
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RT @TPCarney: To actually BAN lab-grown meat--that is, not merely to keep it out of public schools or require labelling, but ban it--seems….
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RT @LouisAnslow: How often does a prompt you gave ChatGPT 'pollute' the chat, throwing it off course, leading you to abandon chat?.
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The King of England was an early anti-GMO activist, warning of ecological disaster in 2008.
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RT @nickgillespie: Amazing. And sad. Love @SnoopDogg, but Disney/Pixar not causing gayness any more than gangsta rap caused crime or Goethe….
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The audience's power over media's message
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RT @franklinleonard: As someone who came of age during the Great Gangsta Rap Panic of the mid 1990s, the irony of Snoop being “worried” abo….
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RT @mattyglesias: I keep meeting people who are skeptical self-driving cars will ever happen. I tell them I took one to the airport in Ph….
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RT @jasoncrawford: @BoyanSlat “Industrial civilization has become a victim of its own success: it has solved the problems of daily existenc….
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Chapter 1 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
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Caught in the middle of a political battle, @BlackRock reaffirmed its focus is helping millions of Americans save for retirement. They warned that injecting politics from either side risks undermining financial performance.
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Millions of Ameircans depend on the security of their retirement savings to live with dignity after a lifetime of hard work. That’s why the Alliance for Prosperity and a Secure Retirement (APSR)...
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