Andrew Reeves
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Andrew Reeves
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 moreidle gaze 063: the discomfort of uncurated life
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The boring discomfort or ordinary life
“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.
Their analysis depicts three distinct types of new luxury goods: accessible superpremium, old luxury brand extensions and mass prestige or mass-tige. Accessible superpremium designates products that are considered at or near the top of their categories in terms of quality, and are sold at a considerable premium. Despite the comparatively high price... See more
Fabian Faurholt Csaba • Redefining luxury: A review essay
Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional - The School Of Life
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Being in balance - Australian Unity
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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Celebrity, even the modest sort that comes to writers, is an unhelpful exercise in self-consciousness. Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ‘somebody,’ to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over animation. One can either see or be seen.
... See moreThe Distance Model of Status and Brands: Columbia Professor Silvia Bellezza came and spoke to us at Exposure.. It's the idea that old status signifiers used to go upmarket (more money, more access, more time) but when all of that has become democratized, our new model of status is about gaining distance from the mainstream. It so eloquently
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