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Coming Home
- Efficiency is an anti-goal; it is at odds with the work, which requires resistance and tension in order to come into being.
from Coming Home by Mandy Brown
Alex Dobrenko added 1mo ago
- Will it be weird, to write this way? Probably. I’m tossing the same words into (currently) three totally different networks, each with their own affect and moods and characters of the day. I’m keeping my distance, such that I likely won’t hear the replies (at least, not with any timeliness) or see the ripples my words make, should they make any at ... See more
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Ernest Borowski added 1mo ago
- And yet: as much as the Fediverse is different (the governing structures, the incentives, the moderation, the absence of ads and engagement tricks), so much of it is also unsettlingly familiar—the same small boxes, the same few buttons, the same mechanics of following and being followed. The same babbling, tumbling, rushing stream of thoughts. I ca... See more
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sari added 1mo ago
- It’s allowed me to cultivate the soil to suit my purposes—rather than having to adapt my garden to the soil I was given.
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Jasmine Roseboro added 1mo ago
- To step into the stream of any social network, to become immersed in the news, reactions, rage and hopes, the marketing and psyops, the funny jokes and clever memes, the earnest requests for mutual aid, for sign ups, for jobs, the clap backs and the call outs, the warnings and invitations—it can feel like a kind of madness. It’s unsettling, in the ... See more
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Alex Dobrenko added 1mo ago
- And so I remain at an unresolvable juncture: the intersection of the very strong belief that we must experiment with new modes and systems of communication, and the certain knowledge that every time I so much as glance at anything shaped like a social feed, my brain smoothes out, the web of connections and ideas I’m weaving is washed away, and I tu... See more
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Ernest Borowski added 1mo ago
About the feeling of getting into social-media loopscrolling
- This is one of the many reasons why I find the current conversation about so-called generative AI so immensely frustrating: there’s all this hype about making everything easier and faster, about how we can eliminate all the work involved in the making of words and images. But no one arguing for this seems to have asked what’s left when the work is ... See more
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Alex Dobrenko added 1mo ago
- I believe that we desperately need to be experimenting and developing methods of communication that aren’t beholden to either the advertising industry or the brittle egos of billionaires.
from Coming Home by Mandy Brown
Ernest Borowski added 1mo ago