Severin Matusek

We're now living in a system where attention dynamics are the operating system for resource allocation, political decisions, and identity formation.

The New Economics Foundation found that 82% of Uber customers would use a more ethical alternative to the ride hail service and 54% would pay more for their journey to give drivers better pay and conditions.

With the platform era now coming to a close (partially due to AI slop’s overreach) and AI supposedly driving cognitive costs to zero, counterintuitively, our institutional structures will enter a growth phase in response to a new demand for shared narratives.

But mostly they just drop cool pictures and funny memes, and discuss or riff on them. “There’s an understanding that, like, you’re not going to kick each other, you’re not going to judge each other,” he said. “You’re not here to represent your identity; you’re just here to chill.”

Community gallery: at the top of our Discord we host our community gallery in which we showcase visual art by our community. At the time of writing, we are featuring the art of community member Leticia Ferraz.

Influencers, she argues, do not simply advertise products; they perform a deeper ideological labor, personifying aspirational lifestyles and mediating hegemonic values under the guise of personal authenticity.

To me, it’s very important to think about speculative fiction and worldmaking as two approaches for better orienting ourselves to the present, rather than conjuring escapist utopian futures that will never arrive.

The collaboration thing is always: how do I talk to someone one lunch table over and learn their thing? I don’t like going to a music industry event and talking about marketing because I already know that conversation. I want to talk to Abe Burmeister from Outlier about how they do drops, how they run their website. Why don’t you do wholesale? Why... See more

but their apparent pervasiveness underlines the consensus that the public internet exists only for the purposes of yelling into the void