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Outsourcing your autonomy to an attention economy conglomerate—as you do when you mindlessly sign up for whatever new hot service emerges from the Silicon Valley venture capitalist class—is the opposite of freedom, and will likely degrade your individuality.
Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
The Information Age's emphasis on speed over expertise contributes to "superficial culture in which even the elite will openly disparage as pointless our main repositories for the very best that has been thought
Information Age
The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations. If we are to revive it, that must end
John Naughton • The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding | John Naughton
While an audience is a group of unique individuals, a significant issue arises when our individual needs are overshadowed by the appeal of aggregated data, a metric tethered to one’s social status.
In this scenario, we become mere data points on millions of AI-driven newsfeeds, puppets in an entertainment game where we are both actors and audience —... See more
In this scenario, we become mere data points on millions of AI-driven newsfeeds, puppets in an entertainment game where we are both actors and audience —... See more
Every great technological change has a destructive shadow, whose depths swallow ways of life the new order renders obsolete. But the age of digital revolution — the time of the internet and the smartphone and the incipient era of artificial intelligence — threatens an especially comprehensive cull. It's forcing the human race into what evolutionary... See more
Bullshit ahead
If e/acc is an attempt to rebrand tech zealotry as an apotheosis of moral goodness, it is also, as Silicon Valley grieves the realization that it is no longer seen as an unbridled force for good, a form of denial and bargaining—one last plea for salvation as the walls close in. If it happens to result in the end of humanity, so be it. As Land’s lat... See more
Ali Breland • Meet the Silicon Valley CEOs who say greed is good—even if it kills us all
the view that sweeping aesthetic, and nearly moral, judgments could be made about entire cultures. Their sense of taste, capacity for innovation, and ultimately contribution to human progress were all fair game for assessment and review.