Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
co-matter.comSeverin Matusek
It’s 6:52AM, coffee is brewing, we’re on page 666, Jon Baskin is reading, it’s a sunny day, we’ll be here at EARTH for the next 12 hours or so, everyone’s welcome:
49 Orchard/ https://youtube.com/@earth_net49/streams…
Such people have come to be known as the “dissident right,” a loose constellation of artists and strivers clustered around the Bay Area, Miami, and the Lower East Side micro-neighborhood Dimes Square. The milieu was drawn together by a frustration with electoral politics, Covid lockdowns, and the strictures of “wokeness.” Vice signalling has been... See more
Ava Kofman • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
“Please stop sending me AI videos of my dad.... You’re not making art. You’re making disgusting, over-processed hot dogs out of human lives.”
Sora 2 is an Attack on Social Media.. and Reality
How will these changes filter through to the ways our attention is captured, and where it’s directed, in years to come?
Social media is in a death spiral – so what comes next?
I’d describe my time from 2015-2020 (when the book will be published) in three distinct phases:
- Phase I: 2015-2016: Discovery, exploration, initial research, hypothesis generation (funded by the Ford Foundation)
- Phase II: 2016-2018: Experience, experimenting, hypothesis testing (working at GitHub)
- Phase III: 2018-2020: Refining, summarizing,
nadia.xyz • Reimagining the PhD
Artificial intelligence can generate abundance in creation, it can even create new currencies, but it cannot convert attention into currency. Only human beings can do that.
Attention is what makes us human
First I’d argue that the digital world and the physical world are already deeply interconnected and getting more so everyday. The internet is a global brain that increasingly orchestrates the global body. One of the myths around Jetsons-like robots is that automation happens visibly, with a 1:1 correspondence between the thing replaced and the... See more
Chris Dixon • Words With Web 3’s King: An Interview With Chris Dixon
Military strategy and diplomacy all became subordinate to social media dynamics. But he is moving on as if war is only a weekend thing.