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It feels like we’re on the brink of something (beehaw.org)
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Covid, WFH, Musk, The fall of Twitter, Netflix plateau, Reddit Blackout, Crippling interest rates, Trump, Decentralisation, Tech Antitrust, Ukraine

Adding in Edit: AI, Climate Crisis, Nazis, Fascism, Democratic backsliding, automation, mass unemployment, rising homelessness, wild fires

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[–] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be perfectly fair, the world has always been screwed up in a hundred different ways at any given time. It's just more immediately visible to every single person these days

[–] bear_delune@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

True, at least now more people are taking notice. But those working against the populous are more brazen than ever too

[–] beerd@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I think the main difference is that now we have the technological power to fuck things up irreversibly (hope we still have chance against climate change, but im not sure a mass extinction could be prevented and not just moderated at this point)