Kirsten
@rootyarn
Following threads of not knowing and seeing what structures they form. Delighting in the pulse of life and the moment. Trusting in living systems, the cosmos and the trip that is life.
Kirsten
rootyarn.com
But as AI accelerates our ability to (1) generate, (2) manipulate, and (3) distribute information, this weird tension becomes even more pronounced. We're entering an era where the battle between content and context will reshape how all policy is created, communicated, and understood. Digital platforms and AI tools have created an environment where:... See more
Kyla Scanlon • Studio Ghibli AI, Classified Leaks, and the Context Shift
Thoughts: like we are adding new elements to our perception, but still using old frameworks, rigid and resistant to change, and so instead of the new elements (eg AI) falling into place within a restructured mental map they exercise undue impact on the structure, basically contorting it - north is no longer north metaphorically speaking - the mental map is distorted by these elements that don’t fit into it, because the element we are trying to fit into the map affects the map itself. Picture a magnet with a too large gravitational field (in terms of meaning) pulling everything into a different shape - and so it isn’t a question of how we talk about the new element only, it’s a question of how we talk about everything under the influence of the new element. Like being intoxicated? Seeing through a looking-glass?
Second thought: now more NB who is saying what, the context, as the article says…..what would orient us otherwise? Earth, senses, agency. Have we given these away bit by bit, in the name of choice and opportunity and potential and possibility, so that we are focussed on guidance outside ourselves, or we just took the guidance outside such as religion, parents etc and replaced it with pseudo-choice and are therefore happy to place our power in someone out there, still believing this is our choice we are freely-making and to see the power we have given away we would have to see the whole context - all the micro give-aways of our power.
We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or to hate, to see or be blind. Often, too often, stories saddle us, ride us, whip us onward, tell us what to do, and we do it without questioning. The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and to hear silence, to name them, and
... See morePolycene Design Manual - Center for Complexity at RISD
polycene.design
Shared as part of 10×100 meeting - looks like a great resource to dig into
Curation is so deeply under-explored on the Internet in my opinion. It sits right in between consumption and creation and is the perfect bridge between the two, allowing us to actively engage with what we consume to then produce work from this saved knowledge.
(from Sari Azout)
Yes, kinda want to do some of this with rootyarn. Own thoughts but also curating.
Fundamentally then, school and all educative experiences must empower the learner to think freely about the complex world around them, and thus should be a liberator of oppression, not the reinforcer of it.
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
− Subtraction & Depth
“As platforms combust around us, brands are frantically asking, “Where to next?”.... See more
We’ve done a familiar dance for over a decade: users have jumped from blogs to Myspace to Facebook to Instagram to Snapchat to TikTok, and brands and ads have duly followed, collecting ever more data on our lives along the way. [...]
But what if
Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #103
From Rabbit Holes newsletter
Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine in 1920, Clarice Lispector and her family emigrated to Brazil when she was an infant, fleeing pogroms (mass expelling and massacre of Jews from the Russian Empire)
Her mother died of progressive paralysis, believed to be a result of syphilis contracted from a violent rape and attack,... See more
instagram.com‘Why do we attend to the things to which we attend?’
Harold Innis (Canadian media theorist)
And if communities are spaces for belonging, cohorts are spaces for becoming.