book (Alice's version)
by alice smith · updated 16d ago
book (Alice's version)
alice smith added 16d ago
- Computers can see us as large groups, but they’re glum and only aggregate us to sell us stuff. In reality, the computers give great insight into the power of common identity between groups. No one’s using that. What’s sitting with the computers is a way of seeing new groups, new common identities between people.
from Adam Curtis on the Dangers of Self-Expression by thecreativeindependent.com
alice smith added 18d ago
- My perennial thought will always be, if the internet didn't exist in the state that it did now, we would have so many rich, interesting scenes, because people have to work to share that.
from Overmining, extracting and under funding, are we killing culture?
alice smith added 21d ago
- The problem goes deeper than this. Increasingly our tech also opens us up to new vectors of anxiety. Regardless of whether you’re working more or less, your nervous system is now plugged into a neurotic and hypersensitive globe-spanning information system that’s constantly pushing unnecessary things into your consciousness.
from Tech Doesn’t Make Our Lives Easier. It Makes Them Faster by Brett Scott
alice smith added 22d ago
tech being more convenient comes at a cost
- For thousands of years, Earth’s resources have been extracted by bodies, most of whom were not free. But now it’s our bodies and ourselves being extracted.
- Hans Ulrich Olbristfrom Fwd: HANDS OFF: A generational shift in purpose 🔮
alice smith added 23d ago
- You must choose your way forward. The data shouldn’t tell you how to live—you train the AI to paint a more beautiful future - SSENSE
from Fwd: HANDS OFF: A generational shift in purpose 🔮
alice smith added 23d ago
- As Shumon Basar put it, we're living in the era of LoreCore: 'a prevalent stage of reality in which we're all characters; characters who are also audiences.' From Coquette to Mermaid fashion, from Doe to Siren Eyes, codified styles are 'guiding' our characters' journey, while optimizing it for digital consumption.
from SKIN DEEP
alice smith added 1mo ago
- I’m curious about the way it’s impacting our inner monologues. The constant self-analysis, the picking-apart, the internal work . In collusion with capitalism and social media and the digital panopticon, seeing ourselves through a therapized lens means regarding the self as the ultimate project. It’s easy to forget there are other ways to live.
from #180: Against Self-Analysis
alice smith added 1mo ago
performatism is being embedded within us
“A post for the creatives who just need to hide away. It is safe to hide away for a while darling. Momentum won’t leave. You will make momentum. You won’t lose opportunities, you will make them. Because in the quiet you will find more and more art. In the silence ideas will be heard. Be brave enough to sneak away and leave us all desperate for more.” - Amie ( @inspiredtowrite ) post via @filmmkrs
alice smith added 1mo ago
