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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Sep 6

Rolling Stone, 20 years ago:
- There are too many virgins!
- How will Apple keep growing?
- Vaccines cause autism?!?

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · 10d

Happy Birthday Google

For many of your 27 years you were called a lazy vice. Finally you have attained the status of a thoughtful virtue of the good old days.

🥂 🥳

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · 10d

Happy Birthday Google

For many of your 27 years you were called a lazy vice. Finally you have attained the status of a thoughtful virtue of the good old days.

🥂 🥳

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · 15d

1914

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Nov 22

The media outlets rightly admonishing RFK Jr. need to reckon with their own roll in his rise to prominence.

In 2005 Rolling Stone and Salon would publish his op-ed ‘Deadly Immunity’ linking vaccines to autism in children, based on tiny - later retracted - British study.

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · 19d

Do you have a fun example of resistance to new things in the past? Reach out! Seeking contributors and collaborators.

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · 19d

Italy has discovered us 🇮🇹

Internazionale @internazionale.it · Feb 21

Pessimists archive è un sito che raccoglie esempi storici di resistenza al cambiamento tecnologico, sociale o culturale. L’editoriale di Giovanni De Mauro.

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Per dormire meglio bisogna smettere di leggere prima di andare a letto. La bicicletta fa male alla salute. Ascoltare la radio può danneggiare le capacità cognitive. Pessimists… Leggi

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · Apr 29

I swear if some of you saw an electric light bulb for the first time you'd be all "its so impractical and expensive, who even has a generator? We just just use cheap, renewable whale oil"

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Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 29d

Pessimists Archive educates people on and archives the history of technophobia and moral panics

See gadgeteer.co.za/pessimists-a...

#conspiracytheory #FUD #technology

Pessimists Archive educates people on and archives the history of technophobia and moral panics

Pessimists Archive is a project to jog our collective memories about the hysteria, technophobia and moral panic that often greets new technologies, ideas and

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Aug 17

“Our forefathers had to carry water in pails; chop their own firewood to keep themselves warm; hew their own homesteads out of wilderness; walk miles to the nearest neighbour to borrow books.” (1928)

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Sep 6

If anyone builds it, everyone dies (global telegraphy) newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/telegraph-...

Telegraph Doomers of the 19th Century - Part 1

Like the web, telegraphy brought rapid changes in society along with very familiar anxieties and criticisms.

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sKelly 🦴💀🎃 @tealwaistcoat.bsky.social · Sep 6

The RFK Jr. article has its own Wikipedia entry lmao

Deadly Immunity - Wikipedia

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Sep 6

Rolling Stone, 20 years ago:
- There are too many virgins!
- How will Apple keep growing?
- Vaccines cause autism?!?

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Sep 6

If anyone builds it, everyone dies (global telegraphy) newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/telegraph-...

Telegraph Doomers of the 19th Century - Part 1

Like the web, telegraphy brought rapid changes in society along with very familiar anxieties and criticisms.

newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Jun 28

"Modern technology depletes human cognitive abilities more rapidly than drugs, according to a psychiatric study conducted at King's College, London. And the curse of 'messaging' is to blame." - The Register, 2005 web.archive.org/web/20050424...

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Sep 3

They said this about the bicycle in 1893 predicting the "evolution of a round-shouldered, hunched-back race"

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Sep 3

They said this about the bicycle in 1893 predicting the "evolution of a round-shouldered, hunched-back race"

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Aug 28

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · Aug 20

A century later, the evidence is in: Automobile Brain is real, and it’s a leading cause of Miserable City Syndrome.

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Aug 28

People are devastated NYT mini crossword was put behind a paywall.

Once upon a time the NYT looked down its nose at word games, refusing to put them in the paper. newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-new-yo...

The NYtimes Banned Word Games Before Embracing Them

The following newsletter is syndicated from a 2022 BigThink.com article we wrote inspired by The New York Times acquisition of Wordle. In April it was revealed subscribers to The New York Times played...

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Aug 17

“Our forefathers had to carry water in pails; chop their own firewood to keep themselves warm; hew their own homesteads out of wilderness; walk miles to the nearest neighbour to borrow books.” (1928)

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Aug 15

Defence attorneys for kids love to scapegoat new technologies and trends. The media loves to write about it and lawmakers love to propose ‘solutions’ to the ‘problem.’

Often it is a waste of time, distracting from real problems and solutions to them.

(1977)

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Shirley @shirleyrl.bsky.social · Aug 15

I remember 🙄

Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Aug 9

In the 1980s it was illegal to make a VHS recording of a TV show in Britain.

One suggested compromise was to allow it but only if people wiped the tapes after 28 days.

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Aug 15

Good point! and really sad.