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Schell • The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
Inexpensive and user-friendly digital tools for manipulating text, images and sounds — think Photoshop or GarageBand — have dramatically broadened access to the means of cultural production and blurred the lines between amateurs and professionals. But the question is not just how many people engage in cultural production — it’s how people engage.&
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“Unpacking My Library,”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
describing how algorithmic recommendations and other digital communication routes can silo Internet users into encountering only…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
(Sasha Shulgin, who died in 2014, was a brilliant chemist who held a DEA license allowing him to synthesize novel psychedelic compounds, which he did in prodigious numbers. He also was the first to synthesize MDMA since it had been patented by Merck in 1912 and forgotten. Recognizing its psychoactive properties, he introduced the so-called empathog
... See moreMichael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
