By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/04/2026Zombie flow is "progress without pleasure" - it's frictionless, and so it gives us nothing except that sense of the world going away, and when it stops, the world is still there. 40/ 190
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/04/2026The trick is to find a way of compartmentalizing that rewards attention with some kind of productive residue that you can look back on with pride and pleasure. I wouldn't call myself a happy person. I don't think I know *any* happy people right now. 41/ 2110
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/04/2026But I'm an extremely *hopeful* person, because I can see so many ways that we can make things better (an admittedly very low bar). 42/ 1120
Esko Reinikainen @reinikainen.eurosky.social · 15/04/2026Apparently Finland is full of 'happy' people. If you and Alice make it back here to revisit the origin place (hopefully before the Russian army does) I'll give you the guided tour to sauna flow. 100
