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In so many ways to live in 2024 is to be subject to a constant and all-out assault on our attention . It’s the ability to attend to anything — a book, another person, ourselves — that is being eroded. I’m increasingly convinced, then, that the next big vector for inequality is around this most fundamental of human capabilities. The elites are going... See more
David Mattin • New Week #138
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Self awareness around digital presence. As in, what does being on this platform do? Who am I supporting? Do I believe in the design of this space? What data relationships am I partaking in? Our well-being is heavily influenced by these places, the decisions they make, the projects they fund. And, I think people are starting to select their software... See more
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From FF newsletter
I think of scenes as very loose organizations of people associated with the creative process with a very loose but omnipotent hierarchy that can sometimes change from minute to minute.1
The thing that makes people most uncomfortable about scenes socially, is how they subject everyone involved to think about their social standing. I’ve got bad news f... See more
The thing that makes people most uncomfortable about scenes socially, is how they subject everyone involved to think about their social standing. I’ve got bad news f... See more
Scene Me Up
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... See moreCulture has to follow the dominant modes of perception of a given era. While a twentieth-century building might have been designed to be photographed, the twenty-first century work of art is “designed for reproducibility” through algorithmic feeds…They each contribute and conform to a generic, flattened, reproducible aesthetic. Hence the general st
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The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.
-David Graeber
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How can we use technology to maintain a culture?
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“We find meaning in work that allows us to become enough of an expert that we are able to add our own flavor.”
Stratscraps v167.
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youths have the tendency and time to indulge obsessions
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