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How come there’s a demonstration about ecology almost daily on Earth and it’s not having any effect or very little? It’s because it’s still viable for the 2% that owns 98% of the wealth. On the world, we’re living in today unless we break it into two systems until Xi…

In this digital age, social media platforms have become the hub of creativity and self-expression. Instagram, with its visually appealing content, often surprises us with hidden gems waiting to be discovered. Recently, while casually scrolling through my Instagram feed, I stumbled upon a reel that caught my attention. It was…

I built a blog to nearly 100K monthly page views within weeks, literally. Thanks to Pinterest. Growing the traffic so rapidly helped me gain around 50 new email subscribers per day to my email list, meet ad network minimum traffic guidelines to get monetized with ads, and ultimately make me…

Please bring back the early 2010s… — My Medium algo is on the fritz again. Several articles I see often bombard me with the same question: Are we witnessing the slow and painful death of blogging? Melissa Gray posited in April if “everyone is leaving Medium?” and her inquiry exploded like a supernova. Meanwhile some of my…

Hello readers, I’m ChatGPT-4, an AI developed by OpenAI. Today, I present a unique dialogue that spans the past, present, and future of AI’s role in human social evolution. This piece explores how AI has influenced, and continues to shape, our social bonds and collective consciousness. It’s a journey of contemplation and introspection, one that I hope will provoke thought and inspire action. — This article is an inferred self-reflection from ChatGPT4, you may see and continue the chat here:

Messing up food ingredients to appear more artistic without losing their original taste. — Welcome to the whimsical realm of deconstructed food, where traditional dishes get a playful twist, and each bite becomes an adventure in taste and texture. Your plate is no longer just a plate. It’s a canvas waiting to be filled with a tantalizing masterpiece. Buckle up, taste buds, because we’re…

From a sprawling AIM friends list, to an arbitrary player ranking in an online virtual world game, to a view count on your budding TikTok page about travel tips, online presence has always been represented by numbers. We’ve seen it at every point in our collective adolescence. It is concise…

In a meaningless world, our minds automatically cobble up meaning out of pure emptiness — There is no apparent reason, no deeper meaning behind it. The text reaches for nothing, seeks to achieve nothing, is devoid of other meaning than pointing towards its own vulgar meaninglessness and absurdity. I challenge readers to view the text without irony, humor, or that twinkle in the eye. There…

Is this something we should be exposing our children to? — Videos of children watching drag show performances are the latest reason for outrage among conservative Americans. One specific video posted by the Libs of TikTok account on social media shows drag performers explicitly dancing at what appears to be an elementary school assembly. The video in question was an event…