Shuya Gong
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Shuya Gong
The Emotional Logic of Capitalism
“Elaborating his alternative approach through an engagement with the semiotics of money and the genealogy of economy, Martijn Konings uncovers capitalism's emotional and theological content in order to understand the paradoxical sources of cohesion and legitimacy that it commands.”
Having 'potential' in your mind, feels better than failure in reality. This ego-cushion prevents millions from creating their life's work. Once you feel it- physically- that cushion becomes painful, like a tumor you have to remove. And you only get it out one way. By identifying not with goals, but with output. You should feel dead inside if you... See more
To speak about attention as a resource is to grant and even encourage its commodification. If attention is scarce, then a competitive attention economy flows inevitably from it. In other words, to think of attention as a resource is already to invite the possibility that it may be extracted. Perhaps this seems like the natural way of thinking about... See more
L. M. Sacasas • Your Attention Is Not a Resource
Using AI to Talk to the Dead
Some people are using artificial intelligence chatbots to create avatars of departed loved ones.
Dr. Stephenie Lucas Oney is 75, but she still turns to her father, William Lucas, for advice. How did he deal with racism, she wonders. How did he succeed when the... See more
instagram.comUsing AI to Talk to the Dead
Some people are using artificial intelligence chatbots to create avatars of departed loved ones.
Dr. Stephenie Lucas Oney is 75, but she still turns to her father, William Lucas, for advice. How did he deal with racism, she wonders. How did he succeed when the odds were stacked against him? The answers are rooted upon William Lucas’s experiences as a Black man, from Harlem, who made his living as a police officer, FBI agent and judge.
Oney listens to the answers, delivered in her father’s voice, on her phone, through an app powered by artificial intelligence. It generates responses based on hours of interviews conducted with William Lucas before he died, in May 2022.
Efforts to make information conform to archaic notions of scarcity, ownership, and finite physical quantity--concepts that grew out of the agricultural and industrial age--merely lock us into old mental boxes of constraint and exploitation.
Dee Hock • One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organizati…
Intention means every decision, from the most obviously significant to the seemingly mundane, matters.
Will Guidara • Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect a book by Will Guidara
Couture computing—and what happens when you have AI augmenting your hobbies and natural abilities?