Andrew Reeves
@reevesy
Andrew Reeves
Oh and lastly, as for Skibidi; of course a meme that doesn’t make sense represents a generation who’s growing up in a world which doesn’t make sense. How fitting and somehow unsurprising.
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AngryGF offers a perpetually enraged chatbot intended to teach men better communication skills. WIRED took it for a spin.
It seems as though we’ve arrived at the moment in the AI hype cycle where no idea is too bonkers to launch. This week’s eyebrow-raising AI project is a new twist on the romantic chatbot—a mobile app called AngryGF, which offers i
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Fabian Faurholt Csaba • Redefining luxury: A review essay
“Sludge” videos are characterized by the simultaneous playing of multiple clips at once — Family Guy, ASMR slime, and Subway Surfer are some of the most common.
It’s worth calling out the utility of this sludge. The purpose is to offer a more pleasing, dopamine-heavy augmentation to the original content. It’s a sugarcoat to make the “bland” go down.
Music analysis that speaks to the emotion of songs, the rise of individualism.
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture a book by Kyle Chayka
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