Severin Matusek

About values and the selfAll of this makes people question who they want to be. There’s a need that’s not being answered in economic terms or about status. It’s about belonging, being seen, recognised.

Meme coins perform what Wernick identifies as the “double function” of contemporary promotional forms: they serve simultaneously as products and as advertisements for themselves.9 Their appeal rests in the affective atmosphere that they generate across Discord servers, forums, and social posts: the promise of sudden wealth, the pleasure of... See more

Finally, the new technologist does not limit themselves to the VC sprint arena of the past two decades. We believe that we will need to run for government offices with a platform around building products that work for constituents. We are comfortable and embrace roles in the public sector, financial industry, cultural industries, and more.

And while the mainstream discourse around AI continues to revolve around speed and productivity, it’s not surprising that the most interesting stuff seems to occur when creatives reject this framing entirely.

In 2026, we’ve become accustomed to the idea that we’re living through a time of radical change, and basically powerless to do anything about it.

New work: All Media Is Training Data, a catalogue of works by @hollyherndon and @matdryhurst, curated by @eva__jaeger. THREAD: (1/) https://t.co/pVcUqSQ3Ln

GPT-4o image gen is going nuts. People are cooking ads, UIs, album art & more. 10 wild examples + prompts & how-to: https://t.co/NtNzz3nFlB

The Channel NFT acted as a token that opened up a few things for me:

Digital communication has already prepared us for AI companionship, Fagone said, by transforming many of our physical-world relationships into a sequence of text chimes and blue bubbles. “I think part of why AI-companion apps have proven so seductive so quickly is that most of our relationships already happen exclusively through the phone,” he... See more