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Yet every #empire arrives at the same equation: when proximity to power becomes qualification itself, the pretense of anything else becomes too expensive to maintain.
Scipione spent his papacy accumulating art, building palaces, throwing banquets that bankrupted dioceses. His gallery still stands in Rome, a monument to #corruption that accidentally created #beauty.
What remains when America's most powerful #attention machine becomes inheritance?
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Every time I want to search for something, I'm showed the trends and inevitably lose 5 minutes and 10 #attention hitpoints.
Can I switch it off? Default off toggle? Using mastodon web-app, could change.
If an app sends me a notification/interruption to try to sell me things, that's an instant uninstall.
Companies producing such apps tell me "We feel entitled to abuse your time and attention if we can grift a penny or two from you."
Get out of my phone if you can't behave.
Much as I'm enjoying the Schadenfreude of the Trump/Musk feud along with everyone else, I'm also starting to think the degree we focus on things like this is part of the problem. Politics is not supposed to be just about celebrity personalities. It's supposed to be about policies and representing all the people. We can't get better if we keep getting high off the dopamine supply of news like this. We have to choose to pay attention differently.
Every time I want to search for something, I'm showed the trends and inevitably lose 5 minutes and 10 #attention hitpoints.
Can I switch it off? Default off toggle? Using mastodon web-app, could change.
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