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Tag Archives: Weltschmerz
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
Posted in History
Tagged corona, humanity, in the news, murder-death-kill, Thanos, Weltschmerz
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Review: 2019
2019 was a year full of anniversaries, astronomical achievements, cataclysmic failures and other maladies on a global scale disrupted by brief glimmers of hope for humanity. Let’s recap, shall we? Continue reading
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Tagged 2019, environment, in the news, murder-death-kill, privacy, Weltschmerz
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Something is weird about YouTube
“YouTube’s algorithm is easy to game. It’s a system that rewards creators for figuring out what works, and then doing that same thing over and over again.” Continue reading
Posted in Internet
Tagged copyright, cybercrime, Elsagate, humanity, idiocracy, internet culture, pr0n, rule 34, videos, Weltschmerz, WWW, YouTube
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Rewind: 2016
2016 is one of those years that shouldn’t have been. It’s a leap year we could rather have skipped over entirely. The world changed for the worse. Quite frankly, 2016 can fuck right off and die. A few glimmers of hope aside, it was wrought with death, shocks, disappointments and technical failures. Even circumstances at work are getting progressively intolerable. Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, facepalm, humanity, in the news, murder-death-kill, Weltschmerz
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