Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
use AI to give users agency instead of stealing their agency.
Jonah Peretti • The Anti-SNARF Manifesto
We shifted from cyberpunk manifestos, to corporate networks and the commoditization of the user for economic extraction.
Cyberspace is a black hole. It absorbs energy and personality. And then represents it as an emotional spectacle. It is done by businesses that commodify human interaction and emotion. And we are getting lost in the spectacle.... See more
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Reggie James • Political Expectations
In short, we must discover an ecology of technology.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
This isn’t an archaeology experiment, it’s a psychological warfare laboratory. They’re testing out their design for an emergent behaviorally controlled society. YFH-Polity is a prototype for the next generation of cognitive dictatorship. Because, when they surface to release their new and improved version of Curious Yellow upon an unsuspecting net,
... See moreCharles Stross • Glasshouse
She was tempted to flip them down and see if they could face-rec this Larry and if so find out who his editor was—or more likely what edit stream he subscribed to and what particular flavor of post-reality it was pumping into his mind.
Neal Stephenson • Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel
media and machines — once distinct forces, now collapsed into a single living system that governs what gets built, what breaks through, and what defines our reality.
Anu Atluru • Media and Machines.
I'm not anti-AI.
I'm pro-Creators.