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Fear of new things in the past. Exploring pessimism through the ages. Curated by @louisanslow - Substack: https://t.co/ICDLE3Wrbm
Joined October 2015
10 years. 10,000+ posts. 100,000 follows. 100,000,000 impressions.
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MODERATOR: Are you willing to commit to NOT raise the sales tax? MIKIE SHERRILL: I'm not going to commit to anything right now. On Nov. 4, vote NO on Mikie Sherrill. ❌
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Jony Ive on pessimism confronting new ideas
Jony Ive: “You have to reject reason to innovate” “If it hasn’t been done and it’s of value, there’s really good reasons it’s not been done. And so when you’re confronted with those reasons, you’ve got two choices. You can say, ‘Oh, that’s a very good reason, I’m sorry for
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The main thing about the past is its poverty: why then do we have positive/nostalgic vibes about it? An American in 1925 had consumption similar to someone in Indonesia or Paraguay today, on average. But most don't immediately think of the past as a poor place.
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+ 1,000,000 podcast listens before it changed name/theme!
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10 years ago today. Feels more important and relevant than ever!
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(Follows included insta: https://t.co/zn4tgTvTrc and Bluesky: https://t.co/GV79QuqGIY) Oh and don’t forget our substack that hit 18,000 subs recently:
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Fears about old things when they were new. Click to read Pessimists Archive Newsletter, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Someone should start a nostalgia-bait account that's just pictures of the present day, college kids playing volley ball on the beach in Santa Cruz, leafy New England villages, cub scouts roasting marshmallows around a campfire. It's all still happening, you just aren't doing it.
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3 quick pup check-ups for the weekend: 1. Peek at gums (pink = healthy). 2. Inspect paw pads for cuts or debris. 3. Feel for any new lumps or bumps — if you find one, check with your vet. A little care today = wagging tails tomorrow! 🐾
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You don’t have to think it isn’t different this time to learn some really important lessons about the ways the powerful, paranoid and puritanical protest progress!
There has never been a better time to learn about the cognitive fallacies that drive panic about new things
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I’m looking through my Macintosh user guide (the booklet that accompanied my 1984 Macintosh) for the first time in a while, and I’m a little obsessed with this graphic explaining scrolling.
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There has never been a better time to learn about the cognitive fallacies that drive panic about new things
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We should develop many technologies and implement those that test out best. The current policy of strangling world economies, demonising technology, and impoverishing billions to pose as a virtue monoculture, is even more stupidly irresponsible than what we did to nuclear power.
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Jony Ive: “Ideas are always fragile” “Ideas, by definition, are always fragile. If they were resolved, they wouldn’t be ideas. They would be products that were ready to ship.” The legendary designer reflects on what he learned at Apple: “I’ve come to learn that you have to
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@ErikKaiser Stealing jobs for over 100 years! It’s a miracle anyone has one of the few jobs left
Many such cases. Robots have been about to take all the jobs for 100s of years https://t.co/NcotQZ5fAq
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Before Geoffrey Hinton v. META's @ylecun it was... Norbert Weiner v. IBM's Arthur L. Samuel (1959)
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