Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
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At the same time, we are often told these systems are impossible to fully comprehend and are far beyond our control.
Georgina Voss • Systems Ultra
The problem isn’t that the mean has decreased. It’s that the variance has shrunk.
Adam Mastroianni • Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
From Asparouhova’s perspective, the lesson we should draw is not that bad ideas should in fact be suppressed but that good ideas require the trussing of sturdy, credible institutions—structures that might withstand the countervailing urge to raze everything to the ground.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus • Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral
- Attention is infrastructure : Determines what gets funded, elected, or build
- Narrative is capital : It drives flows of money, policy, and sentiment.
- Speculation is the operating layer between the two - it’s how belief is tested, priced, and converted into outcomes before institutions act.
kyla scanlon • Trump, Mamdani, and Cluely
Tech people are not interested in appeals to virtue or beauty or tradition, like most conservatives,” the State Department official said. “They are more like right-wing progressives, and for a long time Moldbug was the only person speaking to them this way.”
Ava Kofman • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
If immersive media prefigured the rise of the neoliberal world order, network media prefigured its collapse.
Neural Interpellation
Beware the Curators: Why Life Beyond Algorithmic Recommendations Requires Skepticism | Future Commerce Insiders
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The value is really in the creator communities, and one of the fundamental reasons why Channel was what we ended up building is that it allowed us to re-bundle around ready-made communities. Our entire approach to re-networking a media system is based on how new media functions now.