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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Too bad they are missing their Christmas bonuses. (thelemmy.club)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

This is only tangentially related, but I'm reminded of a thing from Plato where he was complaining that communicating through writing was a bad way of doing philosophy. His concerns weren't just around communicating ideas between people; he was even opposed to writing as an introspective tool to help a person think through their ideas, or make notes to come back to.

"And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.”

Plato, "Phaedrus" ^([citation needed])

It's interesting because I don't think he's necessarily wrong about the skill atrophy angle of it. It's just a question of to what extent we need those memory skills in the modern era.