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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I was one of the kids who grew up on por-... podcasts, and now I'm a lonely man. Coincidence? #selfhelp #masculinity #addiction open.substack.com/pub/kitnouss...

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Do we need a NoFap for podcasts?

Parasocial friendships are not getting the job done anymore.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

there are plenty of italian-descended Danielas who couldn't tell you where Milan is. They don't worry about whether they have a right to it. Why do people raise their standards so much when an adult picks her own name? I say go for it.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Chinese readers when I translate the meaning of my Christian name into Chinese characters: "hmm, a bit macho, a bit too 'red'" Chinese readers when they see the characters for 'soup nanny': oh that's Tom Cruise! so handsome!

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I wrote about blaming your parents for your woes and the days of wacky 19th C shrinks: open.substack.com/pub/kitnouss... #trauma

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We Will Soon Speak of Microtraumas

Little cuts will also make the jump from the body to the mind

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I don't know if any western apps do this, but on WeChat short vids there is a heart button (visible to your followers) and a like button (only visible to you). In the early days, we wanted everyone to see our likes. Now we want the option.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I like this Yiddish expression you say after something good so you don't jinx it. It's like when we were kids and we said we wanted to sit in the front seat: "called it, locked it, no black magic"

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

"noting that in the 1980s and 90s, computer adoption gave the world all kinds of tools that reshaped the labor market. But labor productivity grew just 2% to 3%." I'm shocked that the introduction of e-mail and spreadsheets only had a single-digit effect. edition.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...

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The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine | CNN Business

If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached...

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

He also remarked on the logistical feat of designing a study protocol deemed acceptable by its feline participants. “I really commend this group of scientists for being successful in engaging 30 cats in doing this stuff,” “Most cats want nothing to do with your research.” They herded cats! NYT

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Got this creepy ad from twitch to try and entice me back. It's a totally fabricated conversation where all my friends are wondering where I am during non-descript 'fire' moment. Twitch themselves should know from my real chat logs that I have no friends there.

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Obsolete Sony @obsoletesony.com · 27/05/2025

This much cool should be illegal

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

people used to have the TV two inches above the floor, huh?

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

What asymptote are we approaching for verifications and captchas online? Eventually, I think we will spend 50% of our time posting and 50% of our time logging in.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Video games are weird. To be in the Steam top 100 is a huge accomplishment, and yet many of those games I've never played and never even heard of. It takes hundreds of thousands of players to make a game a hit, but you can write a best seller book on a few thousand sales.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

What is your view on the place of critics with respect to art?

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

People getting murked by early railway accidents (and later getting quasi-hysterical 'railway spine' injuries) are where we get our modern definition of the 'accident' to begin with. There have always been misfortunes and calamities, but after trains we had a new kind that needed a language.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Love how thick and juicy the gem coins are in this game.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

With your permission, I am emboldened. I would add that If dog-earing a book, underlining, marginalia help you get more out of a book: do it, don't hesitate.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Mazes don't hit like they used to

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

One problem with self-help and advice columns, and I'm only paraphrasing (I think) @oliverburkeman.com here, is that you have to use the wisdom you already have to discern between the stars in the galaxy of new media. Self-persuasion and rationalization have a lot of room to do the curating.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

we're only making plans for freddy ~ we only want what's best, for him ~

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Oh, Lenovo has updated their privacy policy? You know what, I'm going to opt out of this round. Let me just throw my laptop in the trash.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I wrote about the NYT op-ed that informatively begs the bosses not to replace all their entry-level jobs with AI: kitnoussis.substack.com/p/ceos-can-b...

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CEOs can be automated, too; they barely do any work.

Crying and begging the capitalists to stop eating their seed corn has never worked before

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I gotta know these chad car taunts

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

On a completely unrelated note, I hear 'two umbrellas' is the new 'zero umbrellas'

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

In Toronto, I can have a shitty time getting around by the subway, but I get around. In LA, I guess I would become a tunnel person.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Hard agree. Abandon ship two feet from the dock if you must.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

similarly, in the US there are *far* more people working in museums than in coal mining. there are some industries that have salience as 'working people' and 'hearts of the community' (often after decades of intentional managed decline) and some that do not.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

How come Reddit can't keep bots of their platform, but me, a real person, can't even post or comment because my 'karma' is not good enough, and my secret trust score is too low because I use a VPN? We need better captchas. I'm thinking piss sensors like they had in Vietnam.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

"...took Facebook nearly two years to overcome the staunch resistance by CEO Mark Zuckerberg before finally introducing the [like button]" Everything good about facebook is from employees, everything bad is Zuck's. From the AP book review of "Like"

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Vox article about dry texting has some good anecdotes. Will be interested to see what novels the young zoomers write about IM culture. It's not categorically different than a meatspace mailbox, but it's still weird for your lover and your landlord to come through the same portal, with the same hat.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

you gotta be a biblically accurate archangel if you want to 'pay attention' to all these mf cars

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

First off, bring back album covers. I never see them anymore. Secondly, when was the last time a band was one Big Guy and five Lil Guys?

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Well, kiss my ham and call me a rainbow!

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