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Not to double post about chess but if you’re going to kill time on your phone, it feels so much more dignified to open the chess app rather than one of the usual suspects (pi.fyi excluded). Good conversation starter too.
Jun 30, 2024
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i spent literal hours today playing chess online with randoms because it was too hot to do anything else.
the greatest time waster and a good way to not be hooked to your phone.
Aug 13, 2024
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Download chess.com on your phone to replace instagram. Buy a chess set at a thrift store (make sure it has all the pieces). Play with your friends. Play against strangers. Play against me! Play everyday!
Jan 28, 2025
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nothing makes me happier than receiving bespoke reactions from my pals in the group chat
Nov 17, 2024
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Everything is cyclical and you’ll have your eras when you feel evolved, self-assured, like you’ve “figured it out” and then suddenly everything will feel confusing and uncertain. Then you’ll cycle back. And this will happen through most of your life. And it’s happening to everyone you’re jealous of.
Your time will come around, just ride the wave bb 😎 🏄♂️🤙🏼
Jul 11, 2024
This is kind of an anti-rec, more of a PSA.
If you haven’t heard of the marketing research company WGSN it’s worth a deep dive.
Horrifying to see that years ago, a marketing research company predicted that we’d all be into 90s and early 2000s nostalgia, nihilism, and awe/whimsy.
The scarier part, for me, is how companies that work with these firms will prey upon individuals’ sincere interests and perspectives. Some unpaid intern from WGSN is def monitoring this app lol.
I wrestle with that competing understandings that a zeitgeist will always exist; that the transmission of preferences/ideas between people is how culture is made, with also not wanting to be unconsciously influenced by a predatory system whose only goal is to make me feel like I’m less than and therefore push me to consume.
Sry I’m super red pilled this morning lol.
Jul 10, 2024