\n\n\nI just learned that you can buy your message\u2019s way into a full okcupid mailbox for $1
\nand the friendly-seedy tone - the offer is a popup saying \u201cwith a little bribery we\u2019ll let it slide\u201d
\nOKCupid is SO GOOD at correctly humanizing life-by-profitseeking-algorithm
\nhas anyone else here read John Varley?
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You know I would TOTALLY trust Valve to craft people\u2019s social experience and Facebook to sell them microtransaction games and it\u2019s a shame how that worked out.
There was something on maybe Reddit? the other day asking what the biggest most overhyped disappointment ever was and I was like the Segway? but maybe that\u2019s just because (being the kind of person who reads Reddit today) I was the kind of person who read Slashdot back in the day.
\u201cThe Apocalypse\u201d? That\u2019s an evergreen. (You know the Seventh-Day Adventists started out as an 1844 apocalypse cult? American religions are bonkers.)
Then I thought \u201cspace exploration\u201d, because I\u2019ve been looking at some \u201870s pop culture lately and it\u2019s just heartbreaking how much they expected everything to be about that by now.
And that\u2019s kind of the last thing that the postwar optimism was invested in, where we went bankrupt, nothing like that since.
I know, I know, I carry a connection to the universal akasha in my pocket now and I should be more in awe of that but it just doesn\u2019t feel grandiose. Maybe it\u2019s cause it came on gradually, maybe because it\u2019s so entwined with the preexisting world. Like, the universal akasha runs on 5V power and credit cards, that\u2019s kind of bullshit.
And then I stopped and thought that if these developments had been scripted as a story, I would have appreciated that detail as gritty realism.
And then I realized OH MY GOD we live in the capitalpunk AU.
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