Mastodawn

Ah yes, another existential crisis about the #decline of online meme culture, because *that's* what the world really needs 🤦‍♂️. Someone heard an old song at the grocery store and decided it was time to declare Internet fun officially dead 🚨🔔. Clearly, the only thing being optimized out is original thought 😴.
https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-05-03-the-best-is-over/ #memecrisis #Internetculture #originalthought #humor #HackerNews #ngated

The best is over

The seed of this post was hearing “I Don’t Wanna Wait” on the radio while shopping for groceries. The song rips off “Dragostea Din Tei” by O-Zone, which anyone …

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Kent Pitman Jun 19, 2025

@screwlisp

FYI, I have finally published the actual source of my 2014 essay "Whither Original Thought" to my web site. It links to the audio from your radio show a month ago when I had read it aloud for the first time.

https://nhplace.com/kent/Writing/Whither-Original-Thought.html

#Philosophy #Programming #OriginalThought #literacy #education #thought #legitimacy #LispyGopher #invention #originality

Whither Original Thought by Kent M Pitman

A 2014 essay, with accompanying audio, reflecting upon the cultural legitimacy of original thought.

Jyrden Oct 1, 2024

I thought I had an #OriginalThought this morning, but I checked myself before posting to be sure. Googling "Johnny Bravo is an incel" shows I'm hardly the first to come to a similar conclusion.

Oh well, back to mediocrity I go.
#NotAnOriginalThought