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I wonder what will come next?
I’m totally uninterested in the Meta verse
Planned by Zuck. He can’t even keep
Accounts from being hacked and
Disinformation and misinformation
From being spread like wildfires!

And now people expect a make-believe world
Made out of holograms to fill the void?
What could possibly go wrong?

Read a book. Draw a picture.
Paint a painting. Meet a neighbor.
Take a walk. Write a story. Dance.
Build a treehouse.
Smoke a bowl.
Phone an old friend.
Play the piano.

It’ll all work out.

right on Doreen !....could not agree more !.......and thanx for posting this on my birthday ! ......You Got It !

Truth. This is Truth, Doreen....

the metaverse...
brave new world?
or 1984?
or maybe
both?

Just what is it that Zuck wants us to hide from??

may I extend your list of healthy alternatives?
make a salad
play with a dog
hug a tree
do a little math
meditate
laugh
cry
Be

(oh, and happy birthday Steve!)

wish a friend happy birthday - best to you, Steve
give yourself a hug
dance to beloved music
see a sad movie
draw with a friend (online or off)
read a book, listen to a fine actor reading aloud

look for the light in the eyes of any living creature and rejoice in the miracle of being alive
(without stomping on or biking over the smallest)

dang, I forgot an important one:

rock out with your air guitar!

You will wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent™

I may be the only one here who is old enough to remember that slogan?
I am so old I hardly wonder at anything anymore

Kurt Vonnegut — 'Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.'

let's all eat a lot of bread and go to circuses and keep up with the Kardashians

stilltrucking wrote: ↑

December 30th, 2021, 4:55 pm

You will wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent™

I may be the only one here who is old enough to remember that slogan?
I am so old I hardly wonder at anything anymore
...

I remember...
"tour the USA, in your Chevrolet..."
"Winston tastes good, like a (clap clap) cigarette should..."
they're all in there
TSRs - Terminate & Stay Resident....
"...that's what Campbells's soups are, mmm, good..."

terminate-and-stay-resident

mama mia that's a spicy meatball

Be all you can
go for the gusto
join the Pepsi™ generation

Whatever you desire shall fill you
With dreams that manifest a bit of music
In your feet : your wings tickle the person in the elevator
The smell of perfume and sweat
Zuckermans robots
You have been served
The revolution will not be televised
Definitely smoke a bowl
Imagine a world that the internet is more like and alien vacuum cleaner - sucking your patience into space
The blue light- no sleep- take me
And photoshop
Who am I the computer Bitch says
I am anything and everything that you want to be
The bonfire smolders
The rabbits run wild. Here
Get away from the tall egotistical buildings
Lay down on some field
Get stickers in your socks
I dunno what will come next
But I
Know it’s has to be better than 2021
Let’s heal the planet

I know the next election is going to be in 2022
I have no idea what to expect in 2023
I think we might start thinking of 2021 as the good old days.
But if six was nine I don't care except for the young

sorry doreen
just say high jack
this an interesting thread for me, it got my attention. thank you fort posting it
cut and paste:

I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age The internet rewired our brains. He predicted it would.

Michael Goldhaber is the internet prophet you’ve never heard of. Here’s a short list of things he saw coming: the complete dominance of the internet, increased shamelessness in politics, terrorists co-opting social media, the rise of reality television, personal websites, oversharing, personal essay, fandoms and online influencer culture — along with the near destruction of our ability to focus.

One of the most finite resources in the world is human attention. To describe its scarcity, he latched onto what was then an obscure term, coined by a psychologist, Herbert A. Simon: “the attention economy.”

He outlined the demands of living in an attention economy, describing an ennui that didn’t yet exist but now feels familiar to anyone who makes a living online. “The Net also ups the ante, increasing the relentless pressure to get some fraction of this limited resource,” he wrote. “At the same time, it generates ever greater demands on each of us to pay what scarce attention we can to others.”

Those who can collectively commandeer enough attention can accumulate a staggering amount of power quickly. And it’s never been easier to do than it is right now.

While Mr. Goldhaber said he wanted to remain hopeful, he was deeply concerned about whether the attention economy and a healthy democracy can coexist. Nuanced policy discussions, he said, will almost certainly get simplified into “meaningless slogans” in order to travel farther online, and politicians will continue to stake out more extreme positions and commandeer news cycles. He said he worried that, as with Brexit, “Rational discussion of what people stand to gain or lose from policies will be drowned out by the loudest and most ridiculous.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opin ... ernet.html

True.
In a world of images that open and close the heart valve
With very little resistance
I never did like the attention on me-

I dunno how anyone can look at thier computer image for that long.

I think my attention is no longer controllable
That I’m all action and reaction
The lights are on
But there is no one home
Floating in internet space is my sexual desires.
Like Hollywood- it is t real
But not even that gets my attention
See I get that something is wild and free
But I dunno what it is..

Maybe nothing comes next.
Maybe this is it.

I’m angry because I’m waiting for a ride.

That seems like the same tension and pressure
As trying to love when the well runs dry