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A quotation from Martin, Steve:
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HARRIS: I call it performance art, but my friend Ariel calls it wasting time. History will decide.
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https://wist.info/martin-steve/70811/
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"(...) Wasting some time online: part two
Other open source gems found online for your well-deserved fooling around! Here you are Wasting some time online - part two!
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https://www.lealternative.net/2020/11/25/perdere-un-po-di-tempo-online-seconda-parte/
#Curiosity #desk #ecosystem #GoogleEarth #js #opensource #wastingtime (...)"
Le Alternative · Perdere un po' di tempo online: seconda parte - Le Alternative - CuriositàAltre perle open source trovate online per il vostro meritato cazzeggio! Ecco a voi Perdere un po' di tempo online: seconda parte!
This one's for you @Xas - it's popular in this house, Devilishly so...
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Oh missed the connection...now I get to go and wait at Retford too
A quotation from Virgil:
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But time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall, while we, charmed with love of our theme, linger around each detail!
[Sed fugit interea, fugit inreparabile tempus,
singula dum capti circumvectamur amore.]
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https://wist.info/virgil/63919/
Judge erupts at Trump's lawyers for wasting time with 'ridiculous' repetitive questions aimed at Trump Organization's ex-accountant
Insider · Judge erupts at Trump's lawyers for wasting time with 'ridiculous' repetitive questions
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My experience of avoiding #Mastodon for a whole week 
I figured out that timelines are really bad. They trap you in this weird slot-machine-like game where you pull the lever over and over again.
Timelines are polluted with interesting topics and unimportant posts. A perfect mix for gambling.
You barely hit something good, but if, you get a small dopamine boost, which holds for a few seconds and as soon as it's gone, you keep pulling the lever over and over again, until you wasted a lot of time or fall asleep being exhausted of scrolling.
There is nothing social in timelines. It's only an invention of big tech corps to keep you on their platforms to consume more ads and get more data to sell.
Even if timelines are in order on the fediverse and not manipulated by algorithms, like those from #facebook #twitter or #instagram, it still has it's flaws.
A good solution would be to only show the content of a person I follow, who uses a specific hashtag I follow, too. Both should match, not only one of it. The timeline would be very short and not as long as it normally is, which is a problem, too, because if someone posts something at a wrong time, the post goes into the void without anyone seeing it.
Why are #timelines a thing in the #fediverse?
Wasn't the fediverse something without ads and for the people and because it tried to be social?
Why do we have those #addictive and #notsocial mechanisms here?
If someone knows a better system or tool, which is content based and more social, please let me know.
btw. my #productivity went up the last week a lot, because the very first thing I did in the morning was something useful, like working in the garden, working on the next youtube video, reading a book or learning. With social media I would've wasted the time scrolling and that's only what happened in the morning! Imagine the rest of the day being as productive as those mornings...
#socialmedia #addiction #distraction #timekiller #trapsoftheinternet #doomscrolling #wastingtime
Will I be able to avoid Mastodon for a whole week?
Bets are open! 
The last weeks I figured out that I often didn't check off the tasks I planed for a day and after checking my tracker*, I figured out that I am using #Mastodon longer and longer.
In general I don't get #addicted to social media and even help others to get rid of it or reduce it. I fight #entertainingmedia and even wrote articles about it in a blog series called #cleandopamine (https://utopify.org/clean-dopamine-journey-to-the-good-happiness-bringers.html)
But now it looks like, I lost control!
And as a #punishment I will block Mastodon on all of my devices and go #coldturkey for a week.
I will comment on this #poll as soon as I am back. So I hope it will be next Saturday 
Let's do this
* = I've coded my own #tracker years ago, which is simple to activate. After I sit down in front of my PC, I hit a key combination, choose an activity and a timer starts, which is shown in the status bar and after I stop the time, it gets added into a database (The starting process is done in 2 seconds, try this on a smartphone...).
I do this for years to see, which activity needed the most time, how long I worked on important projects and where I wasted time.
Currently the numbers for #socialmedia are too high!
utopify.orgClean Dopamine – Journey to the good happiness bringers
Me wading into another pointless argument on the internet with people who have no interest in listening.