2023 A+, Models, & Best Articles

the easiest dimension in which to create your own reality is the internet. But this comes at the price of being ever less able to realise your vision in real life.

The original feminist BDSM cult Mary Harrington 11.29.2023

Centralization doesn’t drive down costs, so much as it externalizes the problems off the balance sheet. It zeroes out our obligations to others.

How egg politics failed Britain Mary Harrington 5.9.2023

the losers, in fact, in the real economy that enables the Burning Man fantasy one — inhabit that scarcity all the time, [and] ... the risk of genuine material suffering or interpersonal violence that so often accompanies real scarcity.

Burning Man is a capitalist lie Mary Harrington 9.6.2023

Scott speculates that “the greater the pretense of and insistence on an officially decreed micro-order, the greater the volume of nonconforming practices necessary to sustain that fiction.”

The slovenly wilderness Rob Horning 11.30.2023

De-materialised work – the vast majority of “information economy” jobs can be performed by either sex, in practice, they often favour more feminine skill-sets and social strategies.

What American Bullies tell us about men Mary Harrington 9.12.2023

[Modern AI is] a camera that tricks us into thinking it’s an engine that “generates” rather than “sees” things.

A Camera, Not an Engine: Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality Venkatesh Rao 12.9.2023

the watershed perspective can be applied to anywhere in the world because it's how the landscape is divided. And it's the basic management unit with which we need to heal the planet with. I mean, that's how we restore the water cycle. That's how we restore the forest. That's how we restore agriculture. Everything is on the watershed level.

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“intelligence” appears to be a latent property of data, which can be transformed into an explicit property, rather than an attribute of a processing technology.

A Camera, Not an Engine: Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality Venkatesh Rao 12.9.2023

It’s how all propaganda campaigns, all the way back to Edward Bernays in the 1920’s to Soviet misinfo in the Cold War roll out–the goal isn’t to replace the truth with a lie. The goal is to muddy the notion of knowable truth so thoroughly that people give up ever finding it. (a much lighter lift and just as effective)

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