this new app lets you skip the boring parts of your life and i'm just... so tired
so, like, tech visionary áxell øhm's new app, 'moment,' lets you time-lapse your commute and chores, but it harvests your consciousness to power ai data centers? it's a lot to hold. let's try and unpack this together.
it's just, like, so exhausting to be a person right now, you know? the sheer administrative labor of having a body and existing in a space is a full-time job that no one trained us for. so when i first heard about 'moment,' the new wellness app from áxell øhm, i felt a flicker of something. maybe hope? maybe just lower-level dread. the vibe was unclear.
the premise is, like, deceptively gentle. you sync the 'moment' neural-band to your temples before you, say, have to endure a commute or sit through a zoom meeting where you're not speaking. you just... skip it. you experience the 'unproductive' time as a soft, aesthetically pleasing blur, like a lo-fi montage of your own life. you arrive at your destination feeling 'optimized' and 'present,' having bypassed the existential horror of traffic.
but, and i'm, like, literally holding so much space for this because it's heavy, that skipped time doesn't just... disappear. your consciousness, your literal subjective experience of that hour, is 'harvested' and piped directly to corporate servers. they're using our harvested boredom as processing power for their AIs. our empty moments, the spaces in between, are literally the fuel for the algorithm. we're in our ghost-in-the-shell era, i guess.
people are calling the side-effect 'temporal dysmorphia.' you start to feel like a collection of curated highlights rather than a whole person. the quiet, 'unproductive' moments were maybe... important? for our brains? it's just so much to process. my therapist says dissociation isn't a long-term strategy, but, like, have you seen the long-term?
if you're also feeling temporally unmoored and just, like, really need to feel the reassuring weight of reality on your physical form, i did link my favorite weighted sensory blanket on my storefront. it doesn't stop your consciousness from being sold as a micro-transaction, but it's really helping me ground myself after i accidentally skipped my entire weekend.
so yeah. we wanted to fix burnout, and instead we created a gig economy for our own souls. it's all just... a lot. i think i need a nap. but, like, a real one.
Reader Discussion (9)
The author is missing the point. This isn't about 'skipping life,' it's about reclaiming dead time for compute cycles. If you're not monetizing your commute, you're leaving value on the table. It's just efficiency.
This article is technically illiterate. They're not 'harvesting consciousness.' It's just a passive BCI offloading idle neural processes for distributed computing. It's basically SETI@home but with your brainstem.
Great, another subscription service for my soul. Can't wait for the inevitable data breach where everyone's boring thoughts about traffic are leaked on the dark web.
So we've finally reached the 'productizing your own sentience' stage of late-stage capitalism. People need to understand that if you're not paying for the product, your empty consciousness IS the product.
Temporal dysmorphia is a rookie side effect. You just need to run a proper post-skip integration protocol. I use 15 minutes of red light therapy and a nootropic stack and I feel perfectly grounded. RTFM.
Actually, this isn't that new. There were papers on dissociative temporal processing for remote drone operators back in '09. The consumer application is novel, I guess, but the underlying tech is old hat.
I skipped my commute and the 9 AM all-hands meeting this morning and honestly, it was the best I've felt all week. Is it dystopian? Probably. Do I care right now? Absolutely not.
This is a powerful tool if you approach it with the right intentionality. Use it to eliminate distractions and be truly present for the moments that matter. It's about mindful curation, not mindless escape.
They call it 'AI processing' but what they're really doing is building a simulation. They're recording our boring moments to create more realistic NPCs. Don't be a battery for their matrix.