Design Fiction• 4
Design fiction is a design practice aiming at exploring and criticising possible futures by creating speculative, and often provocative, scenarios narrated through designed artifacts
Pedro Parrachia
‘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
Technology• 40
Mo Shafieeha
..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
the inconvenience of convenience• 13
sari
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
Human Stuff• 85
the messiness of what it means to be human, with all of its messiness and complexities
sari
A person spends years trying to become beautiful online. They finally achieve the exact face, body, lifestyle, and aesthetic they once fantasized abou
Co-Star’s co-founder Banu Guler says in an interview, “The crux of feeling like a human is being able to talk about your reality.”
There’s an old Irish saying that the only way to keep a secret between three people is to kill two of them
Love• 127
Yash Mimani aka ahafisher
Two loves hold reality and make our universe unique to the rest: tetrahedron → “hollywood love” hypertetrahedron/pentachoron/5-cell → “real love“ —88
In Jewish weddings the bride circles the groom seven times. I would like to do this in zero g, I'd like my wife to orbit my mass lightly, gently, susp
metaphorical thinking • 38
this is a way of thinking with analogies, metaphors, play, related to sensemaking
Gaia Soykok
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
Activism• 11
Keely Adler
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
More Than Human• 9
An alternative approach and methodology, “complementary ways of thinking, doing, and making emphasise the practice of care and imagination and challenge us to work with, not against, vulnerability, humility and interdependence.” As multi species anthropologist Anne Galloway writes: “what if we deny that human beings are exceptional? What if we stop speaking and listening only to ourselves?”
Pedro Parrachia
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
literary fiction• 14
Juan Orbea
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
Science Fiction• 11
Tanuj
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
