"Murphy Has Come and His Law is that of the Land" | Cyber Patterns Podcast: Episode #25
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"Murphy Has Come and His Law is that of the Land" | Cyber Patterns Podcast: Episode #25
I’ve been thinking of this Labubumatchadubaichocolate phase as IRL Brain Rot, a culture that exists physically but is incomprehensible without the internet, a set of artifacts and beliefs that adhere to the post-digital self.
Algorithms tailor to our nigh-subconscious preferences; matching with a friend expresses a kind of innate affinity, as if to
... See moreWhile we conventionally think of ourselves as “using the internet,” we are simultaneously and undeniably a part of it . We are both creators and the created. We are man and machine, becoming a new kind of man-machine being, beyond any one person’s conceptualization.
Dan Hunt • Internet as Practice
how much of me is me and how much of me is me mediated back to myself via the internet and via people’s responses to me. This of course is the mimetic groove. But it is something that people who are consumed by others must contend with each day. You have to figure out where the meat of content stops and where the rind of your soul is because otherw
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