Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
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In the 21st century, those who control digital infrastructure control the conditions of possibility for democracy itself. Europe faces a choice: build sovereign technological capacity or accept digital colonization.
Reclaiming Europe’s Digital Sovereignty | NOEMA
“It’s unsurprising that ketamine has taken over as the ‘drug of choice’ for young people, because of its disassociating effects, which allow you to be close to one another, while being isolated in your individual k-holes. It also makes it harder to look at your phone.” Plus, let’s face it, it’s hard to look all cool and serious while K-holing.
Why silly music is in right now
If immersive media prefigured the rise of the neoliberal world order, network media prefigured its collapse.
Neural Interpellation
Whoever controls AI infrastructure — compute, models, data and cloud — will shape the economic and political order of the 21st century. The U.S. and China understand this and are mobilizing every instrument of statecraft to secure supremacy. Europe must understand it too.
Reclaiming Europe’s Digital Sovereignty | NOEMA
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.
https://www.nplusonemag.com/author/lisajborstgmail-com/ • Large Language Muddle
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