language
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
Love bombing, gaslighting, and the problem with pathologising dating talk
James Greigdazeddigital.com
Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse and the AI Constitution—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Stephen Wolframwritings.stephenwolfram.com
The people who get to impose their metaphors on the culture get to define what we consider to be true.
~Lakoff & Johnson
As we are fed more content, we are pushed deeper into algorithmic niches. In return, we are encouraged to engage with more extreme and polarizing identifiers because it is more labelable, more indexable by the machine — the creation of the “Island". On this island, the slang, in-jokes, and archetypes which emerge as a community develops in... See more
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
From Donald Knuth “The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.”