The vanishing pleasures of daily life
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Daily life has gotten Unbelievably Convenient. Tickets live on phones, stores come to us. Algorithms, finished sentences.
AI rights. The emails. A lot of this is good. A lot of it saves time. A lot of it.
removes real Annoyances. But it also strips away. So much contact with the world. less touching, less handling, less friction, less meaningful feedback.
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