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At some point I lost the faith: the rock-solid, unconscious conviction that technology always works for our good, in the end. Where is that written, a

Forty years I’ve wandered in a wilderness of words, given just enough to make it by; forty long and languished years with only glimpse of birds soarin

We’ve gathered here for part burlesque and partly news, but these grotesque and varied shapes around keep dancing in this darkened, silent square. Pha

sometimes I hear the silent harp music fingers plucking the invisible strings of radio waves a million monkeys playing at their songs if shakespeare

At some point I lost the faith: the rock-solid, unconscious conviction that technology always works for our good, in the end. Where is that written, a

Forty years I’ve wandered in a wilderness of words, given just enough to make it by; forty long and languished years with only glimpse of birds soarin

We’ve gathered here for part burlesque and partly news, but these grotesque and varied shapes around keep dancing in this darkened, silent square. Pha

sometimes I hear the silent harp music fingers plucking the invisible strings of radio waves a million monkeys playing at their songs if shakespeare

At some point I lost the faith: the rock-solid, unconscious conviction that technology always works for our good, in the end. Where is that written, a

Forty years I’ve wandered in a wilderness of words, given just enough to make it by; forty long and languished years with only glimpse of birds soarin

We’ve gathered here for part burlesque and partly news, but these grotesque and varied shapes around keep dancing in this darkened, silent square. Pha

sometimes I hear the silent harp music fingers plucking the invisible strings of radio waves a million monkeys playing at their songs if shakespeare

They have an exhilarating consciousness that they could make the sun and moon better; but they also have the depressing consciousness that they could

a world in which all one’s wishes were fulfilled would, quite apart from disappointments, be an unpleasant world to live in. The world would be too li

set of remarks Postman delivered in 1988 titled "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change." In it, he explores five insights about techn

The Merchant In a world where rust corrupts I look for lasting beauty; most of my days I’ve sought my luck across lands dark and dirty. In a world whe

quantum leap do you remember back before we were entangled? you spun one way, I another unobserved we both were a mangled mess of state but then I saw

Food For Thought I lie famished in the midst of food (of which I am a part) surrounded by a salty stench that renders me too sick to start imbibing, o

Behold what a funny little thing light is: without it, we perish; and with it, we can clearly see the cause of our perishing whilst we perish.

there is a greater point here about how interfaces & form factors shape attention & enable different types of cognition our thinking is at least part

I’ve been posting so much that all of my thoughts have started to take the form of Twitter posts.

i went from the feed making me so annoyed that i successfully got myself blocked by nikita to enjoying it so much i have to delete the everything app

“French social theorist Jean Baudrillard has this concept called the hyperreality. It’s rooted in simulacrum (Latin for “copying shit”) and follows th

The worst part about anti-boomer sentiment is that when you believe that you "deserve" a certain quality of life, it poisons you. It makes you feeble

kevin kelly (founder of Wired) Kevin: I talk about inevitabilities in technology. A lot of what we have is inevitable given the whole system. AI is i

I have 0 nostalgia for the past. There is no world in which my life is better without plumbing.

The illusion of autonomous desire is, as René Girard outlines in Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, fundamentally deceitful. Rather than moving directly f

if they waited until they were so wise as to make no mistakes before they acted, they waited forever.

The illusion of autonomous desire is, as René Girard outlines in Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, fundamentally deceitful. Rather than moving directly f

if they waited until they were so wise as to make no mistakes before they acted, they waited forever.

It’s as if the future is a shattering window. The further you look, the more pieces that window breaks into. The near future can be anticipated, but t

if they waited until they were so wise as to make no mistakes before they acted, they waited forever.

For there is a real connection between such catastrophes and a certain frame of mind which refuses to expect them.

"In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a

'I am afraid you have some deep scheme in your head,' said Newman, doubtfully.   'So deep,' replied his young friend, 'that even I can't fathom it.

We are as solid as most truly false things are—a dance of particles in space. Only the things no one can touch are true, as you should know by now.

“You may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for

We might be more optimistic if we recognized that we do not have to solve all of these problems. Our essential task—a big enough one to be sure—is sim

For there is a real connection between such catastrophes and a certain frame of mind which refuses to expect them.

So far, over the past 2 years, I have invested more time trying to make genAI work for me than what genAI has saved me. Maybe by a 2-3x factor. But I

The account of the sixth day should be written, He gave them speech, and they became souls. –Whitehead

In the realm of AI ... machines are made to behave in wondrous ways, often sufficient to dazzle even the most experienced observer.

We rejoice when we find remaining in the world any cases in which the individual can see the beginning and the end of his own work.

There is perhaps no worse advice, nine times out of ten, than the advice to do the work that’s nearest.

The mystics are very likely to be the martyrs when the psychologists become the kings.

The Invisible Seafaring Industry That Keeps the Internet Afloat