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Logging off is one tool, but it will not alone cure you.
Elan Ullendorff on Escaping the Algorithm
by Elan Ullendorff, from “So You Want to Escape the Algorithm”
How to avoid cynicism:
Act in ways opposite to your instinct. If you hate something, find out more about it. Again ask 'What is this?', 'Who made this?', 'Who is this for?' Genuinely. Never stop doing this"
-via @being_on_line
“creativity under capitalism is not creative at all because it only produces more of the same,” as Oli Mould puts it in Against Creativity
Cortney Cassidy • A soft manifesto
a river’s right to flow with clean, cool water is not something we should just aim to protect; rather, we should aim to empower the river with its own tools and resources so that, in a way, it can protect it self
A New Order of Regenerative Kinship
from “A New Order of Regenerative Kinship”
But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that wide empty space that ideas emerge. Long runs, hot showers, commutes that don’t involve harried Slack messages and listening to podcasts at 2x speed. Sitting at the edge of a dock, listening to the o... See more
Jasmine Sun • the scenic route
In the post-hipster era, you listened to what Spotify told you to listen to. If you read a book, it was because the precise pattern of blobby pastel-coloured shapes on its cover contained coded instructions to TikTok’s algorithm that sent it zooming to the top of your feed. Your tastes and preferences were decided for you by vast crystalline machin... See more
Sam Kriss • All the Nerds Are Dead - By Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge
One's ability to articulate an idea always lags behind the understanding of the idea, and the understanding of an idea often lags behind the embodiment in which it is first given life. It can take a surprising amount of time to come to understand what a prototype is trying to "say", and longer still to say it oneself.
-Bret Victor
Sculpture by Nicolás Lamas from his 2021 exhibition, ‘Times in Collapse’.
Jean-Paul Sartre, damn https://t.co/xTKtipgoCE