fleegar

@shoutplenty

the basics of life are constantly shifting beneath our feet

windows has an official package manager now, and it was unable to install cmd line tools with shared libraries until last week

cos software has only been mostly free for 10y

cos internet has only been

11/4/2024, 6:50:34 AM

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fleegar

@shoutplenty

widely used for 35y

cos home computers dont go back further than ~55y – within a lifetime

like

already we’re reaching the point of existential threat from ai, and have had this cloud hanging over us from the nuclear arms race since before bob dylan dreamt he was walkin in ww3

11/4/2024, 6:50:34 AM

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fleegar

@shoutplenty

it’s hard to understand the scale of human existence before say the industrial revolution vs the like 5 lifetimes that have passed since then. it feels like we’re close to the end and it happened so fast

and so the consequences of everything are unknown now

11/4/2024, 6:50:35 AM

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fleegar

@shoutplenty

the long-term effects of the nuclear empires or the endgame of capitalism, of living online and being alienated irl

i realised that even some of the lead developers of ubiquitous software like ffmpeg are kind of virtual vtuber-esque online entities, rather than faces in offices

11/4/2024, 6:50:36 AM

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fleegar

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i feel the prognosis for what will happen to humanity and human nature is extremely negative, from observing the story of israel and how it’s been reflected in the online communities that ended my life

the story of evil enabled by lying, gaslighting, and fear of losing friends

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fleegar

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even just keeping up in a world so unstable can be a life-ruining thing. for example, missing this wave was a key part of my personal downfall

what a terrifying pair of graphics [7/7]

11/4/2024, 6:50:39 AM

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