Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
co-matter.comSeverin Matusek
Joanne McNeil provides context to the evolution of communities online connection to the platforms that enable it.
Macmillan • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Show up with your head a little low, show enthusiasm. That’s how culture works.
SSENSE • Just a moment...
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.”
The Model Is The Message | NOEMA
noemamag.com
This has turned communicators of all kinds – from fashion influencers to public health specialists – into Kremlinologists who obsessively analyze the behavior of social media algorithms in the hopes of learning how to please them and (more importantly) how to avoid their punishments.
Hence algospeak. Social media users have learned the hard way that... See more
Hence algospeak. Social media users have learned the hard way that... See more
Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: 11 Apr 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Artificial intelligence can generate abundance in creation, it can even create new currencies, but it cannot convert attention into currency. Only human beings can do that.
Attention is what makes us human
‘lore’—it’s a model of knowledge that is able to interface with both reality and fiction.
Libby Marrs • I Would Very Much Like To Be Excluded From This Lore
Our sense of it being effective to stick together, to do things like loan each other sugar, proactively participate in building neighborhood safety and infrastructure, or babysit each other’s children is dissolving, because in fact it is no longer effective or efficient to do many of these things.