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I can choose where the atrophy occurs by choosing NOT to live in someone else’s version of desirability in the realm of cyber lust. I can choose the v

Curiously, we are invited to vacate our lives through technical means precisely because we are told that in so doing we will be able to hone in on “wh

Camus refers to the Artist as wholly embodying the absurd life, creating a new world parallel to our existing one that is entirely satisfied with desc

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

I can choose where the atrophy occurs by choosing NOT to live in someone else’s version of desirability in the realm of cyber lust. I can choose the v

Everyone can sense there’s something amiss with the prose that comes out of the machines, but we lack the language to talk about it, and so we’ve conv

That’s why I’m neither surprised nor dismayed when studies find that people prefer AI art to human art. Of course they do! In the short term, thinness

Curiously, we are invited to vacate our lives through technical means precisely because we are told that in so doing we will be able to hone in on “wh

When I create with AI assistance, FoA and JoA are usually not aligned, and that reduces the chances of me getting into any flow state. I describe an i

AI is trained on human production. We’re also trained on human production by the music we listen to, the books we read, the art we encounter. So why d

AI can help you get to something you were already reaching for but couldn’t quite grab. You can use it to learn — to understand why a chord fits a son

Curiously, we are invited to vacate our lives through technical means precisely because we are told that in so doing we will be able to hone in on “wh

When I create with AI assistance, FoA and JoA are usually not aligned, and that reduces the chances of me getting into any flow state. I describe an i

AI is trained on human production. We’re also trained on human production by the music we listen to, the books we read, the art we encounter. So why d

AI can help you get to something you were already reaching for but couldn’t quite grab. You can use it to learn — to understand why a chord fits a son

digital embodiment can become a poetic and subversive strategy for reshaping the self as a continuous process of transformation

Your features are “enhanced,” smoothed over, and culled. Then your god-given human beauty, your softness, the ancestral angles of your jaw, your cheek

It doesn’t hit you all at once. It actually creeps in slowly, snailing its way into moments where you catch yourself deleting photos off your phone be

It eats at your desire to want something real, messy, human, imperfect. It slowly erodes your ability to see humanity in a world filled with faces bui

I can choose where the atrophy occurs by choosing NOT to live in someone else’s version of desirability in the realm of cyber lust. I can choose the v

Reading posts not limited by character limits, posts not engineered to be promoted by a algo, reading their long thoughts without hashtags. What a joy

I want my personal website to be like visiting my living room in my home.

I have no content to put on a personal website" That's not true. It shouldn't be the point The goal of a personal website is to be reachable. Your con

The indie/small/cosy/fun/personal/whimsical web isn't gone. You're just not going to find it on Instagram/X/LinkedIn/Facebook/Reddit etc.

Even when times are serious I can be playful.

Don’t like. Don’t subscribe. Go make a web page.

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

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

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

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