Willem Deisinger (audio999)
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Willem Deisinger (audio999)
Archiving as a political act in an age that strives for acceleration and focuses less of remembering
data hoarding for good?
... See moreIn Epstein’s network the seemingly sharp lines between the liberal establishment - Clinton, Gates, Summers, Chomsky etc - and the supposed agents of polycrisis - the Russians, the Israelis, Trump and his cronies - were blurred.
There were no crisp lines of decorum. No one and nothing was beyond reach. Everything was up for grabs, whether that be
As Adam Tooze frames it: the existing frameworks — left, right, liberal, reactionary — are more obviously breaking down than before. Our models can't contain the data.
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-432-writing-column-talking
MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake.
Just a few days ago many AI influencers (including Andrej Karpathy) had said that the website was "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff".
It wasn't.
The "taking over humanity" posts were... See more
Moltbooks theatre of the false coming AGI
Data troves for storytelling
Engineers actually storytelling to perpetuate a story of AGI. Hyperstition.
We are more and more connect ideas through stories again, i.e. neo-orality.
Neo-orality is not a Western anomaly—it is a transcultural media condition rooted in platform infrastructures, affective economies, and the post-print collapse of epistemic gatekeeping. ... This is not about culture; it is about infrastructure. The affective, real-time, and highly performative logic of neo-orality flourishes across contexts because
... See morehttps://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=143088
"Democracy, Neo-Orality, and the Unraveling of Political Norms: What Can We Social and Political Scholars Do?", Jacqueline Fendt
Platforms requiring the user to consume and perform
Connect to neo-orality
Story telling as the new medium of communications
Digital hoarding in the UK. Anxiety over missing information or loosing it when you need it.
in 2016 we perfered algorithims. How do we feel now?