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   Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Oct-2025 05:29:18 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

   • ❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️

   @micr0 It is simple .. people do not listen to the lyrics -- or what is actually said. The span that people care about things today is a tok-tik minute. But it wasn't much better back a few decades ..

   @SnowyCA

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     ❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️ (snowyca@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Friday, 24-Oct-2025 05:52:23 JST ❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️

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     @amszmidt
     yup. Social media shortened attention spans after tv started the process. TV programming was longer-fewer commercial interruptions when I was young, and we didn't turn on the tv until work and all the chores were done for the day, even then only for a couple hours at most.
     Books, we read books.
     @micr0

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Oct-2025 05:52:23 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • ❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️

     @SnowyCA I remember waiting a whole week to watch one single episode of my favorite "Good night" cartoon. It lasted 10 minutes .. was black and white. If you missed the slot .. sucks to be you.

     In my teens, there was a two(!!!!!) hour slot of good series, bunch of friends would stare at the TV. We would gather much earlier to watch.

     We'd watch, and discuss that for the rest of the week. Now some person does a 10 second dance and people watch it for a month.

     Get rid of computers.

     @micr0

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     ❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️ (snowyca@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Friday, 24-Oct-2025 07:09:36 JST ❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️

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     @amszmidt @micr0
     Black and white tv--yes. Once a week episodes, yes. Once a week hockey game on tv--remember that? (well here in Canada, that is)
     Computers have their place however we need to get rid of the big corps who have taken advantage of the part of the brain that's addicted to the high many folk feel while doomscrolling.
     When my husband and I go for coffee we are nearly always the only couple or group not staring at their phone screens--we communicate with each other. I've watched parents in coffee shops using tablets to pacify unruly bored children too young for school.
     I don't know how we will convince people to break free of the addiction.

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     Karsten Johansson (ksaj@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 24-Oct-2025 23:38:40 JST Karsten Johansson

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     • ❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️

     @SnowyCA @amszmidt @micr0 In the most recent Ars article about ChatGPT's new browser, the writer was lamenting that you still have to babysit the AI while it does your work, so he still wouldn't be able to play online video games instead of working.

     There probably is no cure. Maybe that fabled EMP from the sun that wipes out the world's electronics...

     PS: Canada Reprezant! 🍁