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Tag Archives: corona
Review: 2023
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. As of 2023 I’ve officially stopped giving a shit. Continue reading
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Tagged 2023, AI, babes, corona, current affairs, humanity, John Lennon, murder-death-kill, the end is nigh
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Review: 2022
2022 was a bit of a blurry blemish despite several significant events in my personal life. If it wasn’t for calendars, one could be forgiven for feeling that we’re still in 2020 or went way back to the year 1920. Indeed, 2022 may be remembered as the fuzzy period during which the world turned into a steaming pile of shit – but only in part due to pollution or climate change: it’s humanity that’s lagging behind its own technological advances. Continue reading
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Tagged 2022, babes, chaos, corona, current affairs, devolution, humanity, in the news, murder-death-kill
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Review: 2021
Although the year 2021 isn’t quite over yet, we may as well write it off now. In all honesty, sometimes I’m not sure what even happened this year because I was cooped up for most of it. I felt disconnected, as if my head was stuck in sand for most of the year — but some noteworthy events did take place after all. Continue reading
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Tagged 2021, babes, corona, current affairs, in the news, insanity, madness, murder-death-kill
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Revision: 2020
2020 was a year of infamy. It will probably go down as the year of SARS-CoV-2 but sorry, we’re still in the middle of the very same pandemic. We still have a stretch to go. Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, brexit, corona, current affairs, fire, humanity, in the news, murder-death-kill, Thanos
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A few thoughts on the current coronavirus crisis
Here’s to another day of “social distancing” and “home office”. This is my fourth week of “lockdown”. City streets are deserted, roads are empty. Nature is taking a breather. My dining table has become my temporary office desk (I need the space for the monitors). This may become the “new normal”. While I’m no stranger to “remote working” and some of the luxuries it affords on account of my job functions I still think this ain’t right. Continue reading
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Tagged corona, humanity, in the news, murder-death-kill, Thanos, Weltschmerz
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