well thats an angry and populist article, but i see where it's coming from. It's pretty telling how easy the authors mix up modernism and postmodernism imo. I think it's easier to understand in the historical context, for example how classic pre-WWII modernism was pretty human-orniented (how dare they just write off Gropius as a misanthrope) and how popular housing projects from that era still are. And how after WWII you couldn't just start to rebuild everything in a traditional style, as just about every system that shaped that old world had catastrophically failed. I totally get sentiment of just trying to reinvent everything, mocking of the past, and doing away with all kinds of lavish facades to hide behind. That being said i completely agree with the authors about most things that were put up after like the 80s of so. These fucking soulless mallscapes everywhere, and still so much empty spaces and fear of density.

On a more serious note, I do agree that public buildings especially ones for services oriented toward disadvantaged people should be generally significantly less dour. But yeah I also agree with you that the author went a bit overboard with some of their assessments.

Also that building in Paris is in one way really rad looking but yeah I would hate living in the city with that looming over everything lol.

this commentary is pretty...... brutal

waggles eyebrows

I use a client for twitter just because it makes the numbers less prominent, and it rules. I love twitter, but jesus the number shit is such a pain. Like I see folks post about how many followers they have, or like screenshotting the twitter analytics page, and I kind die on the inside.

Actually I went and got a custom CSS Chrome extension and got rid of almost all number silliness with these settings on my desktop computer:

.ProfileTweet-actionCount {
  opacity: 0;
}

div.module.Trends.trends {
  opacity: 0;
}

.ProfileCardStats {
  opacity: 0;
} 

Needless to say, this rules. Twitter just feels like relaxed spa now.

that's a good point, maybe just making it so you have to highlight the number then

This article rules.

There's a couple good reasons for follower and following counts, like it tells you about how someone uses twitter and it's useful to know. But yea, how many likes and rt a tweet has? Useless lol. It's all an engagement hack to keep you on the app instead of doing something else.

I use a client for twitter just because it makes the numbers less prominent, and it rules. I love twitter, but jesus the number shit is such a pain. Like I see folks post about how many followers they have, or like screenshotting the twitter analytics page, and I kind die on the inside.

I think keeping numbers around for transparency purposes would be good, but I'd like to make them much less prominent.

One really cool thing about this software is that it doesn't keep karma totals, so that's just something you never have to think about lol.

If the numbers were less visible, or entirely hidden, everyone might live more meaningful, more productive lives online, using posts as means to ends rather than as circulations within the system.

i want to make a custom stylesheet for this site that hides upvote totals on posts and comments for this reason. this is a small site where the numbers don't really matter, but my lizard brain still likes watching numbers go up and i think i would be a lot happier if it didn't.

ok it works now and all i gotta say is extremely same

agh fuck

e: ok i fixed it. also you can edit what a post links to now i guess

we are all youtube.com

https://twitter.com/BBW_BFF/status/956082193897574401/photo/1

;_;

nothing good can stay, it looks up again from here

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Everything's 'clickbait' nowadays...

At this rate, maybe clickbait is good!

kind of a dumb clickbaity intro for a common sense argument tbh

Bebel said: Whatever the enemy advises us to do is harmful for us. The enemy advises us to go into the Duma—clearly, going into the Duma will be harmful for us. The enemy advises that the powers of the Duma should be extended—clearly, the extension of the powers of the Duma will be harmful for us. What we must do is to undermine confidence in the Duma and discredit it in the eyes of the people. What we need is not the extension of the powers of the Duma, but the extension of the rights of the people. And if the enemy talks sweetly to us and promises us indefinite "rights," it shows that he is laying a trap for us and wants us, with our own hands, to build a fortress for him. We can expect nothing better from the bourgeois liberals.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1905/10/15_2.htm

the opposite

Casey is great in general

half of these things I haven't actually heard of. does that make me uncool?

Aly is great, but I think people should be more aware in general that there's a huge issue of sexual assault in US Gymnastics and it really does need to get burnt down.

i do not know Aly Raisman but i want to give them a high five for seizing an opportunity to do what a lot of victims never get the chance to do.