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You probably found that after putting it to music, your thought isn’t hooking you as much. And notice you haven’t challenged the thought; you haven’t tried to get rid of it, debated whether it’s true or false, or tried to push it away and replace it with a positive thought. So what happened? By taking the thought and putting it to music, you saw its “true nature”; you realized that, like the lyrics of a song, it is nothing more or less than a string of words.
The Happiness Trap
Russ Harris
Races are high-stakes competitions designed to discriminate between people on the basis of a single domain of human functioning. The fundamental problem with hereditarianism isn’t that genetics matters for human difference. The fundamental problem with hereditarianism is the idea that society should be structured as a race we all compete in, rather than a building we all have to live in.
How to Build a Society for All to Enjoy - Issue 107
nautil.us
Enshittification has only lasted for as long as it has because the internet has devolved into "five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four":
Pluralistic: Tiktok's Enshittification
Cory Doctorow
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