Andrew Reeves
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Andrew Reeves
“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.
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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Certainty - Making your customers feel secure about the quality and longevity of your product reduces the fear of disappointment or the need to frequently replace the item.
Variety - Owning items that introduce a sense of novelty to a person's life satisfies their need for variety and can make them feel more excited.
Significance - Owning something... See more
Variety - Owning items that introduce a sense of novelty to a person's life satisfies their need for variety and can make them feel more excited.
Significance - Owning something... See more
Superhuman
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
... See moreThe contemporary home, in addition to housing the interfaces that enable humans to operate the machine for living in, is increasingly an interface itself, mediating between its inhabitants and the outside world.
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idle gaze 063: the discomfort of uncurated life
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The boring discomfort or ordinary life
Joy is always a surprise, and often a decision.