Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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We are familiar with A.I. helpers, like Apple’s Siri, which are modeled after feminine stereotypes, but here it feels as if the opposite is happening: A mother has been recast as a robotic being, her work dismissed as rote and easily outsourced.
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Knowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness, as compared to encounters with the world of flesh-and-blood people, nature, and material things? This paragraph from Karl Ove Knausgaard struck me as eloquent: “It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images
... See moreLike girls, boys openly express their desire for genuine connections with others, including with boys. They reveal the human capacity for mutual understanding, care, and empathy and demonstrate remarkably astute abilities to read the human world. Yet as they reach middle to late adolescence and as expectations of manhood intensify, they begin to... See more
changing face of masculinity
“The antidote to the alienating spiral of self-optimisation is collective joy, like dancing badly in the dance class,” and later, “I guess, in the end, it all circles back to the same thing as always – commodification. Is there any way to escape this loop?”
Gertruda Gilyte • Competitive Wellness
The phonograph was blamed for stripping the life from real, human, soulful performances; to paraphrase critics at the time, recorded music would kill the amateur musician and destroy musical taste entirely. (Hate to imagine what those critics would say about Suno.) Television, meanwhile, is probably the most famous example of controversial... See more
Rex Woodbury • Why Does Everyone Hate AI?
history repeats itself. technology is always going to be criticised for making its previous form obsolete or replacing something once held dear
You can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well.
Paul Graham • The Need to Read
some self-limiting format, like a newsletter or print edition.
How to stay sane *AND* informed
the idea of ‘self-limiting’ formats in an age where there’s media overload