Around 2000, graphene was a very hot material. I was pretty excited by it and thought carbon-based high-Farad capacitors would essentially replace lead acid and lithium ion batteries in most consumer electronics within a decade, maybe two.
The strange thing is that is has been, for some of us, for a while now. The screws have been tightening my whole life and people don’t realize how close to destitution they are until it hits them. It’s like the poverty version of “If my neighbor loses their job it’s a recession, if I lose my job it’s a depression.”
of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024.
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics
Illiteracy is a huge and intentional crisis in America and is a major reason we’re in the mess we’re in now. American education has been steadily hollowed out since public schools were integrated and now those chickens are coming home to roost. We are in for a long, bad time of rebuilding I’m afraid.
The fun thing about art criticism is there’s no barrier to entry. Literally anyone can do it.
Yeah I think I used it incorrectly. I had in mind the notion of adding new data to existing ideas to form more sophisticated versions of them. And I guess dreaming might do that if you have the same type of experience all the time. I think that’s probably why dreams about being at work (at least, my dreams) tend not to include some of the trippier aspects of my other dreams. They usually don’t make sense, but they still feel very mundane and specific. Usually I’m just doing my job the whole time, with varying levels of anxiety about how badly things are going for no clear reason. All that similar input makes the concept very specific.
But you’re right, it’s not really driving toward anything, it’s just semi-random jumbles of ideas and associations.
Her breasts were unassuming yet intelligent looking, nodding gently as though understanding a calculus lecture.
kinda reminds me of https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2718