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Reading fiction is important to understand the cross-sectional variation in humanity, to understand how difficult generalisations can be, to just get a sense of how different social pieces fit together, and to get a sense of different historical eras – and plus, reading fiction is often just plain flat-out fun.

Still, I think something more fundamental has been lost for all of us as social media has evolved. It’s harder to find the spark of discovery, or the sense that the Web offers an alternate world of possibilities. Instead of each forging our own idiosyncratic paths online, we are caught in the grooves that a few giant companies have carved for us... See more

Digital Infrastructure: Our entire system of mass communication is privatized and optimized for profit. Elon was able to buy Twitter! The billionaires own the papers! Meta owns Instagram and Facebook! The way we communicate is an addiction because it has to be - communication is a commodity. That’s how money is made. We are a nation of addicts,... See more

@MarkAllanKaplan

1 year ago

It is the brilliant minds and beautiful hearts of new generation explorers like Kei Kreutler who give me hope for the future. In this talk she integrates multiple domains of knowledge to explore the theoretical and practical dimensions of mediums of memory. Her passionate search has a deep and higher framework that... See more

Artificial Memory and the Interruption of Infinity

Produced for the Summer of Protocols research program, Kei’s essay-chapter “Artifical Memory and the Interruption of Infinity” provides a path through the history of memory protocols in a Western context, highlighting traditional canon and where it falls short. Beginning in 500 B.C. with a Hellenic... See more