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‘lore’—it’s a model of knowledge that is able to interface with both reality and fiction.

You’re talking to a person at a party and his or her attention is elsewhere, annoyingly. How do you get their attention back to you, and then hold it

..it is possible that every bit of complex technology will in its turn reveal to us something about ourselves we did not know. Part of inventing and t

Now on to the good news. Your no thanks doesn’t need to be an absolute, total, eternal no. We can use typewriters to write letters and write a poem on

The Technology That Actually Runs Our World

Flatness, like scalability, is efficient. The same culture flows through the same pipes to the same net-average consumer. But since when did efficienc

Technology increasingly robs us of the mystical in our lives. Not everything needs to be fast and available and convenient. I love ideas and products

I think there are things in life that you want to telescope and compress and accelerate and streamline and make more efficient. And there are things w

Tech Doesn’t Make Our Lives Easier. It Makes Them Faster

A conversation between Alex Dobrenko and Douglas Rushkoff on the spiritual nature of awe, rescuing the human from the machine, and why the future depe

We've fallen for the trap of thinking something doesn't exist if it isn't on the Internet. Maria Popova: "The internet is a surface level of the oce

A person spends years trying to become beautiful online. They finally achieve the exact face, body, lifestyle, and aesthetic they once fantasized abou

THEN Almitra spoke again and said, And what of Marriage, master? And he answered saying: You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore

And yet, as is often the case, those of us who need love so badly at a particular moment can be off-putting to those who want to love us, and to those

Two loves hold reality and make our universe unique to the rest: tetrahedron → “hollywood love” hypertetrahedron/pentachoron/5-cell → “real love“ —88

“Gnosis should be an experience of your own life, a plant grown on your own tree. Foreign gods are a sweet poison, but vegetable gods you have raised

Market forces incentivise us to get on the property ladder, and then to set fire to the rungs beneath us so that nobody else can climb up. Moloch need

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyful

social media will never be the impetus for real social change. He compared Twitter unfavorably to the civil rights movement. The Woolworth’s lunch cou

It's hard to save the world voluntarily when others are destroying it full-time.

What if we re-embraced activism as the intentional acts carried out by each generation to guide us from legacy narratives to new challenger narratives

I'm not talking about anything as narrow as ambition. After all, ambition eventually wears out and probably should. But you can keep your zest until t

Instead of a holistic and intersectional approach, entrenched in the ability to tap into collective support structures as a form of personal resilienc

People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never

Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can oft

1/ The good news: the METAVERSE is exciting but NOT for the reasons most people are talking about. The bad news: odds are the 'Metaverse' will be us

Whether it is through a VR headset, the manipulation of projectors, or clever set design, immersion fulfills our desire for escapism, instantly transp

Given the large degree to which metaphors from digital technologies shape our understanding of memory, it’s surprising that our images of memory are s

In large part this is because education, like most social systems, is slow to adapt, iterate, and evolve to be relevant for changing times. The glacia

generative AI is but the latest in a line of innovations that draws attention to the flaws of the modern education system, leaving us to question how

The humanities, rightly understood, are the things that technology cannot take away or substitute for. Of course, I don’t mean ‘humanities’ in the way

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It’s hard to talk about “masterpieces” because the concept trades on a theory of aesthetics that is controversial when spelled out (aesthetic value re

The inhabitants of /lit/ see themselves as the victim of anti-canon efforts, as the academy has sought to “decolonise” and expand the curriculum over

A reading revolution is taking place on this notorious message board, most famous for alt-right memes, anything-goes chatter, and large-scale coordina

So why try to predict the future at all if it’s so difficult, so nearly impossible? Because making predictions is one way to give warning when we see

I think of it as the difference between order and a different kind of order. Because there’s nothing chaotic in diversity. There’s nothing chaotic in

The Zapatistas and the Electronic Fabric of Struggle*

To meet these challenges and increase the impact of foresight work, we need to rethink our approach from the very beginning of a project.

The Zapatistas and the Electronic Fabric of Struggle*

The Zapatistas and the Electronic Fabric of Struggle*

Believing we’re separate, we seek control to remain safe. Releasing that belief, we discover our safety always lies in cooperation.

To me, that’s healthy competition: an inherent call-and-response between artists in which one artist’s output inspires the other’s output, which catal

Folk Interfaces

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Politics is a lagging indicator of consciousness. Do not despair.

When we mistake spreading ideas for taking real action, we overlook a crucial asymmetry: ideas and actions distribute their consequences wildly differ

Companies like Crossfit and Soulcycle create a sense of consistent space and ritual that inculcate deep loyalty and community among their participants

As a consumer, you subscribe to one vision or another: what’s your version of hiking out doors? What type of vibe are you about? Purist? Gorpy? High i

In the new cultural economy, the culture is the product. It is composed of practices, ideas, and discourses. Products are auxiliary, supportive, but n

honestly i'm so good at consuming content LMAO. like how do I make it my job to literally just read, watch, and listen to stuff??

What gets clicks becomes what gets made. The edges get sanded down. Originality gives way to imitation. Junk food wins, so everyone starts cooking cra

It takes yesterday’s trends, remixes them with today’s keywords, and spits out tomorrow’s mediocrity. It’s not thinking. It’s rehashing. Recursively,

We must choose the “longest way round” because meaning is neither fast nor viral nor optimized.It’s made. Slowly. Painfully. Honestly.By humans.

But what felt new was the speed and violence with which language now manifests markets. I’d sit in meetings as a single phrase “AI-native vertical Saa

Regenerative crypto economics

On Being Lost

At its core, sensemaking is the art of regulating attention. This is a fancier way of saying that you must know what to ignore. And then you must have

Critical Atlas of Internet

Authenticity simply can’t survive this environment of constant performance – we become alienated from our own actions when every moment is filtered th

When you say that the status quo draws people toward more individuated, personality-driven work, what do you think is causing that, both culturally an

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

iUnlock doors with it.iMeet lovers through it.iOrder food with it.iSummon cars with it.iEven meditate with it.Apple designed the iPhone too well.So we

Good Conversations Have Lots of Doorknobs

Enabling environment

Yatú: Head of Fiction is Norm. Head of Reality is me.  (USB club job titles the co-founders gave themselves)

Queer Ecology, a type of resistance ecology that has emerged to flip the script on mainstream ecological concepts by examining the relationships betwe

Seeing the country laid out in that way, its biodiversity charted on a menu, the place I had been living in or traveling around for eight years at tha

My friends and I founded a university over the summer and...it's going great?! And it's been surprisingly painless to start and run?! It's a "networ

About - The Integral Guide to Well-Being

Create ownership in everything. Revenue shares in projects. Equity in micro-companies. Stakes in outcomes. The Old Game keeps you permanently renting

When individual entry is impossible, collective entry becomes optimal. When traditional financing fails, alternative structures win. The groups doing