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omnipresent technologies that are governed according to opaque algorithms and whose often-arbitrary, hugely consequential decisions are outside the reach of existing laws. Seen in that context, it shouldn’t be a surprise that her state of alarm resonated with people who came across her videos.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
I’m noticing this platform has become a really good way for women to monetize their diary entries — lists, random thoughts, and (easy to write) roundups of “what I’ve been doing” do really well on this site.
Emily Sundberg • The Machine in the Garden. - By Emily Sundberg - Feed Me
We recognize that while the primary reason that slavery is a moral abomination is what it does to the people who are enslaved, there is something deeply corrupting about being someone who treats someone else as property. I’m not saying it’s the same thing as slavery, but there’s a depravity in treating a person as nothing but a means to your end.... See more
Sublime • Oliver Burkeman is doubling down on the purely human
People don’t announce their emotions. They perform them.
Charles Duhigg • Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
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instagram.comhaunted by something I saw in Google’s A.I. demo. The video featured A.I. briefly summarizing emails someone hadn’t read. Then it demonstrated generating new emails to reply with.
Have you heard the word Rob Horning 12.21.2023
Have you heard the word Rob Horning 12.21.2023
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The body became something one had , not something one was . And language followed. It turned into a tool - but for what? We learned to separate professional words from private ones, rational words from emotional ones, legitimate words from the ones that felt too charged. In that split, something was lost: our ability to speak with our whole selves,
... See moreAnna Branten • The Collapse of Communication
The grammar of selfhood There’s a chance that this contradiction is felt more deeply in some cultures than others – a truism that’s reflected in the language of the self. In English, temporary states and permanent attributes are both addressed by the singular "I am," creating a static container for selfhood — one that perhaps makes our present day... See more