<story><title>DATAcide: The Total Annihilation of Life as We Know It</title><url>https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/115/datacide-total-annihilation-life-we-know-it.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Chlorus</author><text>TL;DR
&amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ve built my own echo chamber!&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>Snhr</author><text>TLDR; I&amp;#x27;ve done what you&amp;#x27;ve done on a massive scale.&lt;p&gt;Most things end up depressing me if I follow them, knowing people are willingly participating in such an absence of brain activity. I had to stop myself from constantly scrolling down on facebook when I was bored (I realized I don&amp;#x27;t even actually read what people post most of the time because I&amp;#x27;m looking for something interesting, but I still subconsciously notice what people are doing somehow.) I&amp;#x27;m not against this by any means, so don&amp;#x27;t take this as me complaining. I don&amp;#x27;t know what&amp;#x27;s popular right now, I don&amp;#x27;t know what is trending on twitter. What&amp;#x27;s left is my little bubble where I have what I need to explore what I&amp;#x27;m interested in. I can find interesting articles, I can find new music, and I can talk to people who actually are interesting to talk to. I&amp;#x27;ve completely cut off any noise and am completely left with pure signal.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m completely out of touch with most everybody, and I&amp;#x27;ve never felt better. I guess this goes hand in hand with being super introverted, I couldn&amp;#x27;t imagine actually holding a conversation with anybody around me with the information I know that wasn&amp;#x27;t super technical or completely shallow. I&amp;#x27;ve lived with this obvious gap between me and other people my entire life though so it doesn&amp;#x27;t even feel lonely anymore when I can just find whatever I need to keep myself occupied when I&amp;#x27;m bored.&lt;p&gt;The beauty of the internet.</text></item><item><author>api</author><text>&amp;quot;if you are tired of talking about the same old thing, go somewhere that isn&amp;#x27;t doing that.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I was getting bored with music a while back, so I did an experiment: I limited the music on my phone to nothing older than five years. To do this I had to remove hundreds of albums.&lt;p&gt;At first there wasn&amp;#x27;t much left, so I went looking... for nothing released more than five years ago.&lt;p&gt;I found quite a bit of new stuff.&lt;p&gt;Eventually I re-added old stuff I loved, but my musical repertoire had broadened quite a bit.&lt;p&gt;Part of the problem today is that the amount of signal around us has increased so much that it&amp;#x27;s overwhelming, and people haven&amp;#x27;t yet learned that it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;okay&lt;/i&gt; to tune out a significantly larger amount of chatter than what they had to tune out in previous eras. It feels like ignorance, or being &amp;quot;out of the loop,&amp;quot; but it&amp;#x27;s essential.&lt;p&gt;I plan on repeating the music experiment regularly. I should probably purge some of my &amp;quot;feeds&amp;quot; too.</text></item><item><author>kasey_junk</author><text>I quite liked this piece to read as art.  But there are some pretty simple solutions to the general malaise he is expressing:&lt;p&gt;1) get out of the myopic SV culture.  There are lots of actually interesting problems to solve (even in the very small world of software) and if you are tired of talking about the same old thing, go somewhere that isn&amp;#x27;t doing that.&lt;p&gt;2) if you aren&amp;#x27;t interested by the data you are consuming, don&amp;#x27;t interact with it.  Don&amp;#x27;t consume facebook, twitter, HN, et. al.  Or more realistically only consume the ones that add value to your life.  It&amp;#x27;s harder to opt out of being collected in the massive hoovering of this data, but in nearly all instances out of sight, really is out of mind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ctdonath</author><text>To the contrary, seems he built an anechoic chamber. The only signals he perceives is what he wants, cleanly. He has decided what he &lt;i&gt;doesn&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; want, knows that most signals out there are just variants on the same such content, and blocks it all.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m approaching half a century old. Comes a point where you realize you &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; heard it all, and are not interested in anything &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; because it isn&amp;#x27;t. I&amp;#x27;m this -&amp;gt;&amp;lt;- close to shutting it all off and going seriously minimalistic. The tipping point would be a news service which presents only actual need-to-know news, and a stream of new music.&lt;p&gt;Address, enumerate, and centralize your core axioms. Build from there. &lt;i&gt;Stop letting others dump $#!^ in your head.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>DATAcide: The Total Annihilation of Life as We Know It</title><url>https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/115/datacide-total-annihilation-life-we-know-it.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Chlorus</author><text>TL;DR
&amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ve built my own echo chamber!&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>Snhr</author><text>TLDR; I&amp;#x27;ve done what you&amp;#x27;ve done on a massive scale.&lt;p&gt;Most things end up depressing me if I follow them, knowing people are willingly participating in such an absence of brain activity. I had to stop myself from constantly scrolling down on facebook when I was bored (I realized I don&amp;#x27;t even actually read what people post most of the time because I&amp;#x27;m looking for something interesting, but I still subconsciously notice what people are doing somehow.) I&amp;#x27;m not against this by any means, so don&amp;#x27;t take this as me complaining. I don&amp;#x27;t know what&amp;#x27;s popular right now, I don&amp;#x27;t know what is trending on twitter. What&amp;#x27;s left is my little bubble where I have what I need to explore what I&amp;#x27;m interested in. I can find interesting articles, I can find new music, and I can talk to people who actually are interesting to talk to. I&amp;#x27;ve completely cut off any noise and am completely left with pure signal.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m completely out of touch with most everybody, and I&amp;#x27;ve never felt better. I guess this goes hand in hand with being super introverted, I couldn&amp;#x27;t imagine actually holding a conversation with anybody around me with the information I know that wasn&amp;#x27;t super technical or completely shallow. I&amp;#x27;ve lived with this obvious gap between me and other people my entire life though so it doesn&amp;#x27;t even feel lonely anymore when I can just find whatever I need to keep myself occupied when I&amp;#x27;m bored.&lt;p&gt;The beauty of the internet.</text></item><item><author>api</author><text>&amp;quot;if you are tired of talking about the same old thing, go somewhere that isn&amp;#x27;t doing that.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I was getting bored with music a while back, so I did an experiment: I limited the music on my phone to nothing older than five years. To do this I had to remove hundreds of albums.&lt;p&gt;At first there wasn&amp;#x27;t much left, so I went looking... for nothing released more than five years ago.&lt;p&gt;I found quite a bit of new stuff.&lt;p&gt;Eventually I re-added old stuff I loved, but my musical repertoire had broadened quite a bit.&lt;p&gt;Part of the problem today is that the amount of signal around us has increased so much that it&amp;#x27;s overwhelming, and people haven&amp;#x27;t yet learned that it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;okay&lt;/i&gt; to tune out a significantly larger amount of chatter than what they had to tune out in previous eras. It feels like ignorance, or being &amp;quot;out of the loop,&amp;quot; but it&amp;#x27;s essential.&lt;p&gt;I plan on repeating the music experiment regularly. I should probably purge some of my &amp;quot;feeds&amp;quot; too.</text></item><item><author>kasey_junk</author><text>I quite liked this piece to read as art.  But there are some pretty simple solutions to the general malaise he is expressing:&lt;p&gt;1) get out of the myopic SV culture.  There are lots of actually interesting problems to solve (even in the very small world of software) and if you are tired of talking about the same old thing, go somewhere that isn&amp;#x27;t doing that.&lt;p&gt;2) if you aren&amp;#x27;t interested by the data you are consuming, don&amp;#x27;t interact with it.  Don&amp;#x27;t consume facebook, twitter, HN, et. al.  Or more realistically only consume the ones that add value to your life.  It&amp;#x27;s harder to opt out of being collected in the massive hoovering of this data, but in nearly all instances out of sight, really is out of mind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JonnieCache</author><text>The problem is, it&amp;#x27;s becoming necessary to live in some kind of chamber in order to stay sane. Staring into the infinite void of indiscernible and contradictory truth forever is more than the brain can handle. More than mine anyway.&lt;p&gt;The challenge is to maintain the right mix of echoes in your chamber.</text></comment>