Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
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Layoffs. Side hustles. Freelancers everywhere. Elaborate new titles.
What even is a “career path” now?I don’t think this is just a downturn
It's not a glitch, it’s a whole new operating system
“market but also all risk borne on individuals not orgs and with that the loss of expertise building, domain knowledge, and institutional knowledge. It means everyone will eventually be starting from scratch with every process on ever project, ending up in the same problem crypto people have where they are constantly "inventing" things that have existed for centuries.”
Dank memes, deep-fried memes, shitposting, feralposting, goblin mode, doomscrolling, or whatever insinuates seemingly senseless online content consumption were all essentially describing brainrot. The term, however, is iconic because it marks a significant turning point. It aptly describes the beginning of our biological coalescence with the... See more
The meme: What is dead may never die - Dazed MENA
Crawford’s concluding remark on this panel was that Europe has a clear choice when it comes to AI: to passively acquiesce to American techbro hegemony or to actively refuse AI. As she put it bluntly, accept or fight!
Is European AI A Lost Cause? Not Necessarily. | NOEMA
“When I think about the internet (which is impossible),” Natasha Stagg writes, “I feel similar to when I have a crush. I feel crushed.”
Who Needs Fiction After the Internet? | The Point Magazine
but their apparent pervasiveness underlines the consensus that the public internet exists only for the purposes of yelling into the void
Gideon Lewis-Kraus • Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral
Lately, I’ve been thinking about my use of AI as a kind of spatial relationship. Where do I stand in relation to the machine—above it, beside it, under it? Each position carries a different kind of power dynamic. To be above is to steer, beside is to collaborate, below is to serve.
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
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.