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Oct 29Liked by Taylor Lorenz

After 20 something years of social media it feels like we are just going through the same cycles over and over. The specifics change but the behavior is the same. None of this has improved anything. Before the eggs there were those annoying email forwards your parents would send you. Same thing with Costco content and the people who make consumerism their personality, that's almost a vaudeville act at this point. It's almost worse now because we have better methods of quantifying exactly how useless most of this is becoming. It's really affecting me lately. I no longer care at all what happens to society and at least once a day I question if I'm losing the will to live (so far I don't think so). I think AI slop has the possibility to be funny, but very few people see it that way. Almost anything you post with AI you get trolled now by comments about how AI is ruining the world, but that's not true. People have ruined the world, AI just helped them do it more efficiently.

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I agree the world is awful right now and people are the problem, but I hope you don’t lose your will to live. Things can change so quickly and you can still make a difference by doing good in the world or helping people as much as you can. I feel you though bc I feel that way a lot too. 💓

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I doubt very much that the Cassowary is in any way related to a Velociraptor.

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They’re as related as you can be for animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago apparently (at least according to a few zoo websites!) https://scz.org/blog/meet-one-of-the-dinosaurs-closest-living-relatives-the-cassowary

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