Reclamation
What helps us regain humanness
Presence, friction, practices, habits, analog rituals
Reclamation
Speedism is the new linguistic default.
We don’t just want our deliveries fast, we want our words, our thoughts, delivered yesterday.
'ASAP.' 'Ping me.' 'Need now.' But at what cost?
My next post will be on this!
Tuğba Avcisubstack.comWe’re approaching a splitting point, where AI’s impacts on how we speak and write move between the poles of standardization, like templating professional emails or formal presentations, and authentic expression in personal and emotional spaces. Between those poles, there are three core tensions at play. Early backlash signals, like academics... See more
Sara Parker • You sound like ChatGPT | The Verge
Imperfection is beauty and is human. It will be valued even more
There is a growing desire among Gen Z to reclaim their autonomy from their phones and remove themselves from what Shaz describes as a passive state of being. Last year, anti-tech activist and writer August Lamm predicted that abstention would be the next big thing. On X, she wrote: “I’m calling it right now, abstention is the new big thing;... See more
Halima Jibril • Why some young people are ‘quitting’ music
Conversation at MIT in 1953:
Marvin Minsky, "We're going to make machines intelligent. We are going to make them conscious!"
Doug Engelbart replied, "You're going to do all that for the machines? What are you going to do for the people?"
There are so many more people we haven’t met yet, ideas we’ve never imagined, philosophical framings that we have yet to stumble upon. Part of our lifework is to find them. Not only through carefully planned research projects, but also by way of random discoveries—those moments we didn’t see coming, and didn’t know we were looking for.
This is also the blueprint for a happy co-existence with the machines. The machines handle the optimization, we take care of the meaning. They execute, we dream. They calculate, and we create. This beautiful symbiosis will be the seed of everything because when humans live from their creative nature, we build societies that breathe. When we stay... See more
The era of the artist
we’ve been trained since childhood to value the answer. school taught us that. the world graded us on it.
but real thinkers, dangerous thinkers, chase questions.
not to look smart. not to win arguments.
but to see differently.
to peel back the world & ask: why does this even look like this?
to ask things like:
but real thinkers, dangerous thinkers, chase questions.
not to look smart. not to win arguments.
but to see differently.
to peel back the world & ask: why does this even look like this?
to ask things like:
- what assumptions are hiding in plain sight?
- w
answers are now insanely cheap
Funda (@funda211952)
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