just vibes

It has become clear that there is nothing in this world too far-fetched to become a vibe. The vibes are out of control. Anything can become a vibe. Even “zero vibes” could soon be a vibe trend, as long as you market it correctly

Scanlon is immensely talented and onto something important. I wish she had devoted multiple chapters exclusively to vibes. Her editor should have given her the confidence to go for it and write the definitive book on the vibes-based economy. Don’t bother with the explainers or Taylor Swift, just go straight into why emotions deserve to be a field... See more

“We started talking about vibes in September 2020,” says Dr Antonia Ward, chief futurist at trends intelligence company Stylus. “We were looking at how social media was reflecting a more chaotic mood. Before that, platforms such as Instagram had been quite buttoned down and filtered, but something shifted. We began sending a more impressionistic... See more

vibes are a catch-all error term. The way that we are talking about how people feel is like “yeah buddy sorry you’re feeling that way.” Like the vibes are off for reasons that make sense

‘It’s game over for facts’: how vibes came to rule everything from pop to politics

The em dash has become an unexpected flashpoint in the AI discourse, with Gen Zers calling it the “ChatGPT hyphen,” a supposed tell of ChatGPT-generated writing.

As everything becomes automated, as machines take over, what remains — is us. The revolution isn’t technological. It’s human. It doesn’t just ask us to reason. It asks us to resonate. To enter into harmony with the living

The vibes are off, but they’re off fundamentally because they focus only on feelings and emotional connections that have already existed. They don’t provide or imagine pathways to new futures; they allow only for an understanding of what feels good or bad based on experiences that have already happened, things that have already been seen.

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