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ivyblackledgewhitfield@diaspora.polaris62.fr
Ivy Blackledge

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May 2, 2022

Breakfast

I woke up this morning, alive, and in my own bed.
I woke up without a dream or a song.
But at least there’s still breakfast.
I have a reoccurring thought.
“People always think they have more time.”
So, I should get some things done today.
Life can completely change in a second or two.

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dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com
Doc Morbius (moved to Glasswings)

The Hard Problem of Breakfast

The stubborn fact remains that, no matter how deeply we probe into the nature of bacon, eggs, oatmeal, and avocado toast—to say nothing of shakshuka, grits, bear claws, or dim sum—or the interactions between these fundamental building blocks and, say, orange juice or coffee and the morning paper, we simply have no convincing theory to explain how such disparate, seemingly inert components give rise to the phenomenon we subjectively experience as “breakfast.”...

http://nautil.us/issue/88/love--sex/the-hard-problem-of-breakfast

Genius.

HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24124900

#HardProblems #Breakfast #Consciousness #philosophy

The Hard Problem of Breakfast - Issue 88: Love & Sex - Nautilus

Over the past century, scientists have unlocked many of the most profound secrets of bacon, eggs, oatmeal, and avocado toast, advancing…

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tuna@diaspora.subsignal.org
tuna

I like the petty #internet

A few days ago someone at work started a moan about how #Facebook just encourages people to post whatever they had for breakfast (curiously enough, in #social-networking what was once 'the most important meal of the day' is a symbol of pettiness). I made a sound of agreement, then thought better of it. Surely the problem of Facebook/other social networking sites is that people don't write what they had for breakfast anymore? What I find so off-putting and irrelevant is the constant stream of memes, quizzes, chain games (that seemed to have stepped into the place of chain letters - remember those? Send this e-mail to seven people or you will die in seven days...) and cross-posting. With the latter, perhaps I'm too picky, but I tend to scroll over cross-posted material unless the person cross-posting has contributed at least a sentence or two of commentary. There are news aggregators, feeds and subscription lists all over the internet...on social networking, I want to know: why do you want to reshare this? What is your take on this? Do you want to discuss it? As to the 'breakfast' posts, I participate in social networking because people are interesting and I want to know about their lives, their thoughts, their breakfasts. Where personal posting goes wrong is where it adopts the techniques of companies that use social networking for #marketing: except here the marketed product is someone's life. That's when it all becomes a glossy boastfest, and the #breakfast is no longer a breakfast, but a marker of a perfect existence.