luka
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Craner once hurled a good luck token gifted to him by an old Irish nun into the Thames and consequently spent ten years labouring under a curse
Smartphone addiction
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Craner once hurled a good luck token gifted to him by an old Irish nun into the Thames and consequently spent ten years labouring under a curse
sufi
lala
the problem with these devices is that we switch off our own functions (e.g. the contact list) as soon as we get the electronic prothesis.
I still remember the numbers i memorised in the 90s before i got a phone, but that brain feature withered as soon as i got a phone,
nowadays we barely know how to meet an asociate without a bunch of text messages and calls, but we used to be fine.
"See you by the Cider bus at 5" (I never saw them again)
"Meet you in Asmara in August" (I was a month late)
I still remember the numbers i memorised in the 90s before i got a phone, but that brain feature withered as soon as i got a phone,
nowadays we barely know how to meet an asociate without a bunch of text messages and calls, but we used to be fine.
"See you by the Cider bus at 5" (I never saw them again)
"Meet you in Asmara in August" (I was a month late)
sufi
lala
My brother linged his phone into the Clyde during one great night out at that pub the helicopter landed on
we still linked up in the morning despite ferocious hangovers
my last memory of that night was repeatedly jabbing some weejy in the chest with my pointy finger during the shebeen 😮
thanks goodness no photos remain
sufi
lala
purify your mind babe, weejy means glaswegian
yyaldrin
in je ogen waait de wind
i also take my smartphone out when i'm feeling uncomfortable or want to hide. like you're sitting in a waiting room for example or you're sitting in public transport and it's not just boredom but also the fact that you have no where to stare at but at other people.
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Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I'm in Oxfordshire (with my parents) and yesterday I had a mini-epiphany — I went for a walk after work to try to "de-stress". I had my headphones on, listening (but not listening) to a podcast. I walked down a country path and was standing in a bleakly picturesque spot. I realised that I couldn't concentrate on the podcast. So I took my headphones off.
And just stood there, looking at the sky, listening to the sounds (birdsong, a bleating farm animal, distant traffic).
It was quite powerful because I felt like I had plugged back into an experience that I remembered having countless times growing up here.
Pretty sure I wrote on here about how I got stoned in London a month or two ago and went for a walk without my protective podcast/music layer and it was incredibly intense and stimulating.
And just stood there, looking at the sky, listening to the sounds (birdsong, a bleating farm animal, distant traffic).
It was quite powerful because I felt like I had plugged back into an experience that I remembered having countless times growing up here.
Pretty sure I wrote on here about how I got stoned in London a month or two ago and went for a walk without my protective podcast/music layer and it was incredibly intense and stimulating.
constant escape
winter withered, warm
Its as if you become a sort of dysfunctional node in the network by abandoning the smartphone. I did it two years ago and it severely impacted my sense of connectedness.
We can argue that cultural/technical human migratory patterns are never truly determined by human will, but this kind of pattern seems to indicate something even more. Like our techne is starting to be better attuned to our migratory patterns than we are, and we were primarily only reactively or retrospectively attuned to them. Techne might be increasingly proactive in its attunedness.
We can argue that cultural/technical human migratory patterns are never truly determined by human will, but this kind of pattern seems to indicate something even more. Like our techne is starting to be better attuned to our migratory patterns than we are, and we were primarily only reactively or retrospectively attuned to them. Techne might be increasingly proactive in its attunedness.
sufi
lala
i've used that ruse (excellent for fare dodging/shop lifting)
but
you don't need a smart phone to do that. If you are just pretending then you might as well use a biscuit
in fact it used to be that you'd avoid people who walk around mumbling to themselves, nowadays mentalists don't have a monopoly on t any more, so if you go around looking like you are having a deep convo, people will just assume you are on hands free (or a mentalist and either way will leave you be)
sad though i suppose how we disengage with reality
sufi
lala
i'd find that any moment where i was not occupied i'd instinctively reach for the phone, even if i'd checked it a few moments before
(I must admit i do sometimes carry a simless smartphone if i feel like i might need to check a mini computer for some reason)
That spiral of checking trivial updates is hard to resist
i've also spent some crappy times dependent on smartphones endlessly trying to find a recharge or a signal, ruined my experience e.g of Prague
luka
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Whenever I've ended up using someone else's, I've gone berserk. Started filming myself doing silly faces, running around, trying to catch people off guard so I can take really ugly photos of them mid-conversation etc, pretending I'm taking a photo when it's actually a video. It's like the mask from The Mask. The tool of a trickster god.
craner
Beast of Burden
After a few years of that I was reduced to sitting at a desk, unshaven, drinking cans of Stella and watching old episodes of Going for Gold on YouTube.
