Ideas I want to write about
This is also why I hated the term "Web3". It implies that Web2 was going to be a subsection of the larger new Web3 internet we were migrating to. Which is wrong. And that's why I advocate for thinking about Crypto as an alternate timeline, or a division of the internet biological kingdom.
Reggie James • SAVE THE INTERNET
Dense Discovery – Issue 343 / The map is not the territory
densediscovery.com
The cocktail server is fulfilling the needs of the guest who want to get a couple beers for the people who don’t drink liquor at the table. The server is building the guests trust by trying to “save them money” by getting one free. However, the server took it from a two beer order to a $30 add on purchase to the
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When you recognize that Hardware is part of our nature layer -> so consequentially, our culture is downstream of our hardware...
We Are Afraid To Be Better
That sounds fine, wonderful — real nonsense. Do more. More nonsensical, more crazy, more machines, more breasts, penises, cunts, whatever — make them abound with nonsense. Try and tickle something inside you, your “weird humor.” You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. I... See more
Maria Popova • Do: Sol LeWitt’s Electrifying Letter of Advice on Self-Doubt, Overcoming Creative Block, and Being an Artist
Now the point of this myth is the fact that men at once become fascinated by any extension of themselves in any material other than themselves.
- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media - The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis
In Search of New Software Cultures
Remaining in the context of New York, it could look like this... The Right is fear-mongering about the dangers of everyday life in the city, while the Left doesn’t want to admit that the city has gotten progressively more dangerous. The Right doesn’t want to admit that police officers aren’t doing their job, and the left doesn’t want to admit we de... See more
Reggie James • Political Expectations
To opt out, though, is to be excluded.
Adam Aleksic • how the algorithm keeps you under control
“Why isn’t it an app?” This argument feels like the make change from the inside. We know that’s not how the world works, but it’s hard to see that you’re in water as a fish.
But what’s hanging in the balance is the image-cultural environment of the future. One not dominated by a format monopoly.
But what’s hanging in the balance is the image-cultural environment of the future. One not dominated by a format monopoly.
In Search of New Software Cultures
from Reggie James