Severin Matusek

In the face of a monolith-in-the-veldt-level era-heralder, what surfaces is an earnest, almost midcentury humanism, interested in charting the distinctions between man and machine.

While recent albums from Dua Lipa, Grande and Lorde treated self-care and introspection as a kind of therapeutic salvation, Charli shifted hard into goblin mode, unfurling a litany of barely euphemistic drug references and proudly owning her messiest contradictions. (

Then it hit me: lorecraft is a natural and adaptive intellectual response to the automation of vast swathes of managerial/leadership functions, and organizational processes. You end up doing more of what the machines don’t.

On TikTok, as The Washington Post has reported, some creators are making $5,000 a month using AI tools to write scripts and animate extremely dumb viral videos where old men talk about soiling themselves.

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This universalism of meme-feels is almost as resilient as the cheesy “unbreakable” human spirit itself. One can even draw parallels along the late David Lynch’s Transcendental Mediation* chart. Oupi Goupi, again, attests to this. Lakaka’s TikToks transcended language and cultural barriers because beneath all those layers of irony, it tapped into... See more

“I’ve used ChatGPT a handful of times,” writes Hsu, “and on one occasion it accomplished a scheduling task so quickly that I began to understand the intoxication of hyper-efficiency.”

Simon Denny Weirdly, I just mentioned Avery and Jon in a talk I did at a conference where Mat was also speaking, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, at the invitation of Hito Steyerl’s Emergent Digital Media class. I prepared a talk called ‘Vibe Coding the Future’, presenting the context behind my AI plotter paintings. Part of the talk was about... See more