Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
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Geopolitical power once flowed through armies and treaties, but today it courses through silicon wafers, server farms and algorithmic systems. These invisible digital infrastructures and architectures shape every aspect of modern life.
Reclaiming Europe’s Digital Sovereignty | NOEMA
Blockchains are the internet’s native financial layer.
Stablecoins: Payments without intermediaries - a16z crypto
There was, however, an alternative theory. The internet was not primarily a channel for the transmission of information in the form of evidence. It was better described as a channel for the transmission of culture in the form of memes. Users didn’t field a lot of facts and then assemble them into a world view; they fielded a world view and used it... See more
Gideon Lewis-Kraus • Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral
Oupi Goupi is shared by many, from film theorists who drew parallels between Lakaka’s work and that of Godard to cartophilists who are collecting newly produced Goupiland Pokémon-coded cards.
The meme: What is dead may never die - Dazed MENA
We also couldn't really participate in building Web2, in part because of our age, and because it was pretty localized who was building it.
Yana Sosnovskaya • Channel and the Great Re-bundling of Media – ZORA ZINE
Historian Mar Hicks on why nothing about AI is inevitable | annotated by william
Rachel Auslanderreadwise.io
Cyberspace is a black hole. It absorbs energy and personality. And then represents it as an emotional spectacle. It is done by businesses that commodify human interaction and emotion. And we are getting lost in the spectacle.
— anonymous internet user
Reggie James • Political Expectations
We are fulfilling our desires together with other people. Anti-thesis to “I’m going to Hollywood and going to make it”, the single dream of making it.