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Play is an intrinsically motivated activity. Play is labour which is non-instrumental. Play is the act of enjoying the means to the end. Play is what

the mere experience of life as the highest goal.

How do we even begin to define productivity? Productivity that produces what? Successful in what way, and for whom? The happiest, most fulfilled momen

Paratelic Actions are more playful in nature and involve enjoying the process in the moment. This is more akin to reading for enjoyment and for the pl

Not everyone who talks about community is a social climber. Genuine communities exist everywhere. But the more the word becomes a personal brand, the

community is fairly weak as a word, in that it can be used to describe anything (which is, of course, also its strength). committed local organizers?

The internet cannot recover a public if politics remains organized around permanent mobilization. A society in which every public utterance is interpr

Paratelic Actions are more playful in nature and involve enjoying the process in the moment. This is more akin to reading for enjoyment and for the pl

A man living in the attention economy attempting a humble and ethical life would certainly appear ‘backward’: for him, good would be bad, up would be

the mere experience of life as the highest goal.

For a decade, we have explained the retreat from the public internet using Yancey Strickler’s Dark Forest Theory. People withdrew into smaller, quiete

Paratelic Actions are more playful in nature and involve enjoying the process in the moment. This is more akin to reading for enjoyment and for the pl

Maybe it is okay to not pursue potential and just be okay with being. Why must there be a reason for everything?

Let us take mountain climbing as an example. Say person A considers reaching the top as the end goal. For A, climbing is just a means of reaching the

Play is an intrinsically motivated activity. Play is labour which is non-instrumental. Play is the act of enjoying the means to the end. Play is what

Paratelic Actions are more playful in nature and involve enjoying the process in the moment. This is more akin to reading for enjoyment and for the pl

Today’s models increasingly thermalize the fossil public. A future public intelligence would instead require access to continuously renewed living cul

Zombie publics cannot simply be replaced by better influencers, healthier discourse, or more responsible platforms. The problem is ontological rather

Dead forestification appears to possess positive feedback loops. Every successful retreat into interiority increases the incentives for further retrea

Nearly every civilization has imagined a cosmic tree: the Norse Yggdrasil, the Indian Kalpataru, the Mayan Ceiba, the Persian Gaokerena, the Biblical

The next public medium cannot simply optimize engagement more efficiently than its predecessors. Nor can it merely federate today’s cozywebs. It must

Zombie publics cannot simply be replaced by better influencers, healthier discourse, or more responsible platforms. The problem is ontological rather

Dead forestification appears to possess positive feedback loops. Every successful retreat into interiority increases the incentives for further retrea

AI did not produce this transition. It merely paved the dead cowpaths. Large language models arrived only after the living public had already begun co

Today’s models increasingly thermalize the fossil public. A future public intelligence would instead require access to continuously renewed living cul

Dead forestification appears to possess positive feedback loops. Every successful retreat into interiority increases the incentives for further retrea

The question is whether history can produce another arborescent digital cosmos and whether we can seed a new forest right now.

The next public medium cannot simply optimize engagement more efficiently than its predecessors. Nor can it merely federate today’s cozywebs. It must

The internet cannot recover a public if politics remains organized around permanent mobilization. A society in which every public utterance is interpr

Zombie publics cannot simply be replaced by better influencers, healthier discourse, or more responsible platforms. The problem is ontological rather

Sometimes modern problems don’t need modern solutions . Ancestral AI emphasizes the importance of historical and cultural wisdom, leveraging insights

Even when times are serious I can be playful.

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FUNSCROLL as a sensation There are certain compelling elements worth invoking in these types of interfaces. It invites us to create digital resigni

Emojis represent another form of universal language, a sort of modern-day internet hieroglyphics possessing their own codes and interpretations; nonet

This collision against the traditional symbolic elements of UI design and the formats enforced by marketing regarding the visual presentation of an ar

FUNSCROLL is whatever the creator wants it to be; it has no rules or limits, only sources of inspiration. It presents itself as the possibility of cra