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Nicole Hennig<p>Exploring Global Perspectives on AI <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/exploring-global-perspectives-ai-ai-for-good-global-summit-un-b8h8e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/pulse/exploring-g</span><span class="invisible">lobal-perspectives-ai-ai-for-good-global-summit-un-b8h8e</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/optimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optimism</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a></p>
Ingrid Hoeben Ⓥ 🇧🇪<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> </p><p><a href="http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2018/the-10-most-pessimistic-movies-of-all-time/2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tasteofcinema.com/2018/the-10-</span><span class="invisible">most-pessimistic-movies-of-all-time/2/</span></a></p>
Heretical_i<p>"I say this not as an expression of <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> or <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/defeatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>defeatism</span></a>, but because that’s simply where we’re at as a society right now... <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dystopia</span></a> where minds are continuously inundated with... <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> and tyrants enact their abusive agendas without much meaningful <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a>. This doesn’t mean we can’t win, it just means we can’t...expect many big wins in the immediate future..."</p><p>In The Fight Tyranny, Don’t Let Your Happiness Depend On Big&nbsp;Wins – <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/CaitlinJohnstone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CaitlinJohnstone</span></a> <a href="https://kafeneio.social/tags/PepTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PepTalk</span></a> <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/11/26/in-the-fight-against-tyranny-dont-let-your-happiness-depend-on-big-wins/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/1</span><span class="invisible">1/26/in-the-fight-against-tyranny-dont-let-your-happiness-depend-on-big-wins/</span></a></p>
titaniumbiscuit<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.community/@openculture" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>openculture</span></a></span> Don't knock these "cheap copies" in the middle of China nowhere. They'll be all we'll have left of historical Paris after the nukes fall in 90 metaphorical seconds. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/14/nuclear-weapons-war-new-arms-race-russia-china-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2024/nov</span><span class="invisible">/14/nuclear-weapons-war-new-arms-race-russia-china-us</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a></p>
Jake in the desert<p>Sci-fi has been getting darker and more pessimistic through the decades. </p><p>A fascinating website that shows this, with data:</p><p>Who killed the world? <a href="https://pudding.cool/2024/07/scifi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pudding.cool/2024/07/scifi</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dystopia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dystopian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dystopian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dystopias</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PostApocalyptic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostApocalyptic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>future</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/pessimistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimistic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a></p>
Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝<p>Radical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> , an introductory thread</p><p>tl/dr I think that it is good thing to recognize the limits on what we can know about the future at this time, while accepting the likelihood of some kind of major change. This often translates to "pessimism." I don't mean either doomerism or accelerationism.</p><p>1/n</p>
proedie<p>There's a study that links <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/procrastination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>procrastination</span></a>. So I updated my <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/adhd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adhd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/depression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>depression</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/flowchart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flowchart</span></a> accordingly.</p><p>(Sorry for not providing an alt text. It's too complicated for me. 😅)</p><p>Study: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-61277-y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41598-024</span><span class="invisible">-61277-y</span></a></p>
penwing (they/them)<p>It's hard to find joy in the election finally being called when the winner is going to be Kier Starmer's Tory Tribute Act... </p><p>Soon unveiling their election logo, a union flag background with hand scrawled red rose-if-you-squint and stem somewhere in a corner...</p><p>And the new "Optimistic much?" slogan...</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/GE2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GE2024</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pessimism</span></a></p>
PaulaToThePeople<p>Can we please stop using the word <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hope</span></a> when talking about the <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a>? <br>Hope, especially when used by the media, plays into the hands of those, who claim that innovations, the free market and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> will fix it for us and nobody really has to do anything - not us, not politicians and not the fossil capitalists.</p><p>Instead of headlines that read "Scientists say we can still have hope..." I want to read "Scientists say we have the means...".</p><p>Chance, possibility, option, alternative, even opportunity are better words to use.</p><p>Lets not give up, neither because we are hopeful, nor because we are hopeless. Let's act. It's in our hands!*</p><p>*That phrase might just be the best replacement for the word hope.</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/optimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optimism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/realism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>realism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a></p>
AnneTheWriter<p>The origin of the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ThreeBodyProblem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThreeBodyProblem</span></a> ...</p><p>(It's <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/HootinTootinTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HootinTootinTuesday</span></a> again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a>.)</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Humor</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Humour</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FunnyMeme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FunnyMeme</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trains</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pessimism</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Pessimist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pessimist</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Optimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Optimism</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Train" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Train</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Optimist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Optimist</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Realism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Realism</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TrainConductor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrainConductor</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>Why Your <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Brain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brain</span></a> is Wired for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pessimism</span></a>—and What You Can Do to Fix It</p><p><a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-your-brain-is-wired-for-pessimism-and-what-you-can-do-to-fix-it" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">getpocket.com/explore/item/why</span><span class="invisible">-your-brain-is-wired-for-pessimism-and-what-you-can-do-to-fix-it</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mind</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/optimistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optimistic</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neuroscience</span></a></p>
Em-squared<p>Oh go on Glasgow Live why not ask a bunch of Glaswegians about optimism. What answer did you think you'd get? As for the 14% at this stage, what the hell are you doing living here? (I'm kidding). <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/optimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optimism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a></p>
guyinahat<p>I'm already <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/married" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>married</span></a> but if I was looking for a new partner 😜, I now have a new perspective by having read this headline:</p><p><a href="https://neurosciencenews.com/optimism-cognition-decision-making-25307/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">neurosciencenews.com/optimism-</span><span class="invisible">cognition-decision-making-25307/</span></a></p><p>Ofcourse nobody is going to read your bullshit. We're all tired of the one weird trick pony docs. But anywho.... If I was looking for a new WiFe I would look for big big <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/boobies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boobies</span></a> number one. Like big unfakeable ones. I was shorted in boobies man! And my kids were all enfamil. Her boobies never worked for shit. Number 2 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a>!</p>
Richard Rathe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/@ninawillburger" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ninawillburger</span></a></span> </p><p>The best analysis of this thought experiment I know of…</p><p>“ The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be.” -Grace Hopper</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/optimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optimism</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a></p>
Rat Can't Read (she/her)<p>No context snippet I overheard on my walk today from two other people's conversation:</p><p>"I don't know. The bad news is all bad, and even the good news just isn't good anymore."</p><p>No idea what they were talking about, but damn, if that isn't a mood.</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Relatable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Relatable</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Malaise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Malaise</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/LifeUnderLateStageCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LifeUnderLateStageCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pessimism</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/LateStageCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LateStageCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Mood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mood</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/DyingUSEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DyingUSEmpire</span></a></p>
Cory Doctorow<p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Optimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Optimism</span></a> and <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> are just <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/fatalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fatalism</span></a> in fancy suits.</p><p><a href="https://doctorow.medium.com/there-is-always-an-alternative-e55fd414d1fd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doctorow.medium.com/there-is-a</span><span class="invisible">lways-an-alternative-e55fd414d1fd</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Contestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Contestation</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Polycrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Polycrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/WideningGyre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WideningGyre</span></a></p>
Pessimism Quotes<p>“The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror.”</p><p>—Thomas Ligotti, Noctuary </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhilosophicalPessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhilosophicalPessimism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhilosophyQuotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhilosophyQuotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HorrorQuotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HorrorQuotes</span></a></p>