Severin Matusek

With institutions, the material support for production is separated from its consumption, audience, and transmission. On the platforms, all of those need to be operating on the same rails to enable the totalizing optimization for the growth of the platform itself.

Brian Eno’s idea of the “scenius” is a constant reference point for how to channel this collective awareness. In case you’re unfamiliar, Eno coined the word in the 1990s to describe “the intelligence and intuition of a whole cultural scene” that can produce something greater than the sum of its parts.

With an aggressive rollout on the calendar, we’ll soon see whether crypto can break into the mainstream—particularly if Worldcoin can prove that cryptography means privacy and convenience.

ne side effect of the vibe shift is that the media establishment has started to accept that there is, in fact, such a thing as a Silicon Valley intellectual—not the glib, blustery dudes who post every thought that enters their brains but people who prefer to post at length and on the margins.

Thinking of a project as a label means thinking in “Releases”. Releasing work into the public and letting it go.

This is not a rewriting of history as much as a DDoS-ing of it—flooding the zone with so much synthetic crap that engaging with reality and humanity becomes just one of many content experiences to choose from.