Where friends turn into frenemies! It's a rollercoaster of joy and rage, as players watch their carefully laid plans crumble into chaos. Just when you're winning, a "friendly" dice roll sends you spiraling into last place. It's a game that tests friendships and thumb endurance – welcome to Mushroom Mayhem!
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Mini Summer Challenge
Summer is the season of warmth, sunshine, and rejuvenation, making it the perfect time to embark on a transformative journey. If you're looking to revitalize your living space, boost your productivity, and prioritize self-care, then the Mini Summer Challenge is just what you need! Over the course of 17 days, I will take you through a series of tasks that promise to refresh your surroundings, streamline your routines, and nurture your overall well-being. I first used this in December, when I saw Tayshabib on TikTok do her GMLT challenge and she even has a template on Notion that I have utilized and it has done my life a lot of good! So, let's dive in and create a more organized, inspired, and blissful summer ahead!
By Tati Marshall2 years ago in Lifehack
Standing While Falling
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
By LUCCIAN LAYTH7 days ago in Critique
Angry People Click More: The Economics of Manufactured Dissent
(Ideas from the book The Economic Policy of Online Media: Manufacture of Dissent, Routledge, 2024) Abstract This article examines the formula ‘angry people click more’ as a core logic of contemporary online media and as a structural transformation of propaganda in the digital age. It argues that the defining feature of the current attention economy is not only the circulation of misinformation, but the systematic deployment of openly implausible claims designed to provoke moral outrage and sustain profitable engagement cycles. The analysis links Oxford’s 2025 Word of the Year ‘rage bait’ to earlier lexical markers of epistemic crisis such as ‘truthiness’ and ‘post-truth’, and situates this trajectory against the older ‘manufacture of consent’ model of Herman and Chomsky. While classical propaganda in totalitarian and mass-media systems sought ideological unity through censorship and the Big Lie, the emerging Propaganda 2.0 model, articulated by Peter Ayolov, monetises anger by manufacturing dissent and deliberately populating the public sphere with absurd, polarising narratives. The article interprets this dynamic through the allegories of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ and Václav Havel’s greengrocer, showing how the move from fearful silence to permanent online rage changes both the psychology and political economy of propaganda. Drawing on Evgeny Morozov’s critique of fake-news moral panics, Frances Haugen’s disclosures about Facebook, and the documentary The Social Dilemma, it concludes that anger has become a tradable asset and that blatant lying has shifted from an authoritarian instrument of control to a market mechanism in a global ‘free trade in slogans’.
By Peter Ayolov5 days ago in Critique
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