Techocalypse
Our strength should not be measured by our ability to push away our tech, but by our ability to hold and live with tech in peace.
Matt Klein • Unplugging Is Not the Solution You Want
“appstinence”
Gabriela Nguyen • Gen Z, Social Media is Optional
AI is entirely to blame for why most inboxes are useless.
The tech has made email marketers vastly more confident in their production to delivery pipeline, which means I’m receiving 5 emails when there used to be one - and getting 5 emails doesn’t 5X my interest in the sale. Of all things, it 1/5ths it with each message that arrives.
Even my text
Brain monitoring may be the future of work – how it’s used could improve employee performance or worsen discrimination
Paul Brandt-Rauftheconversation.com
I’d be even more aware from now on! I’d remember that machine learning has been defined by the people who want me to believe it works the way they say it does. But an algorithm can’t really observe anything. So it can’t really measure my behavior, and so it can’t really discover anything for me, or about me!
Are overnight oats ads proof that Instagram is changing reality?
This is what a frictionless world looks like. Everything accelerates, until you forget what it means to try.
kyla scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World Is Friction
Most of modern life is designed to get you out of your deepest self and into your head, where you are more vulnerable to anxiety (the grease between the wheels of technocratic capitalism).
Catherine Shannon • On cultivating intuition
This website runs on a solar powered server located in Barcelona, and will go off-line during longer periods of bad weather. This page shows live data relating to power supply, power demand, and energy storage.
Kris De Decker • Power
“if your new software no longer runs on old hardware, it is worse than the old software.”