Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Working on a newsletter issue about the costs of hypervigilance in every software-mediated interaction nowadays, but this pretty much sums it upTim Clare@timclare.bsky.socialIt really sucks, doesn't it? Instead of getting excited as I used to when I get a new message, I'm just like ugh, another changeling wearing an uncanny approximation of a human face trying to trick its way into my cottage6:08 PM · Sep 3, 2026 329662
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialWe’re all just Descartes suspicious of a reality manufactured by a mischievous demon taunting us 130
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026(if you want to get it in your inbox when it comes out, sign up, in the meantime read this one, etc etc)productpicnic.beehiiv.comCognitive Pollution: Real knowledge only forms through doing the workmany humans appear to be on auto mode, not on manual mode 2162
Mark Voorhees @mavoorhees.bsky.social · 03/09/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialThe analog version is the porch spam that rings my doorbell. I treat them like any other spam. 000