Severin Matusek

And in politics, this type of speculation has become the closest thing to agency for people who feel like they are no longer served by the economy. People speculate on ideas, personalities, etc. Why wouldn’t they? But when this happens, you end up with a system optimized for speed and virality rather than stability or accuracy.

Rather than advancing financial or technical solutions, meme coins operate primarily through the hyper-visual and social logics of internet culture. They inherit the self-referentiality and sarcasm characteristic of memes more broadly, understood here by Limor Shifman’s definition as “units of popular culture that are circulated, imitated, and... See more

Death by a billion likes.

By having that freedom you can find the spaces you align the most with.The desires of the post-individual are different than what we had in the past.

By the end, I think I was the only one arguing that Europe should build an AI Stack (or something even better) rather than insisting that, in essence, AI is superproblematic and thus Europe should resist doing this superproblematic thing.

A refusal of AI in creative work begins with a refusal of that product’s ideological packaging.

But it is far too late. Consensus reality is gone. We are blessed to live now, in the West, in a strange world without common sense.