Severin Matusek

But just as individuals use various things to simulate control, institutions are increasingly using spectacle to simulate stability they can no longer guarantee. Spectacle is the solution9, because seriousness requires accountability and accountability requires consequences and consequences require institutions that are willing to enforce them.... See more

Screentime has become a colosseum where everything is in competition with everything else: email from work competes with text from a friend competes with Instagram and Tiktok.

The more the world fills with slop, the more human gestures stand out and reverberate with new meaning. Accessing glib simulations of information will have become commoditized, but someone actually telling you something, anything, will seem more important than ever.

So is it possible to build AI tools that can help us all, rather than simply bolstering the dizzying wealth of a small number of tech companies? Is it possible to create an AI that democratises more than just financial insecurity for the majority of people—simply shifting a greater percentage of people below the wealth disparity gap rather than... See more

The rest of us have the misfortune of living in a superfan’s world.

In other words, instruments can surprise you with what they offer, but they are not automatic. In the end, they require a touch. You use a tool, but you play an instrument.

Every creator has a group that they can BELONG if they choose to.

“Don’t die,” says Bryan Johnson, “100 years is not enough.” But death is the only reason attention matters—and by extension, art.