Severin Matusek

People pay to see others believe in themselves.

Whoever controls infrastructure determines the future. If you doubt that, consider that in Europe we’re still using roads and living in towns and cities the Roman Empire mapped out 2,000 years ago.

Metaphors mixing mind with machine proliferate across pop psychology—not least in subliminal fan communities, where the videos are seen as programmes that can delete, rewrite, and generate new “programming.” That a behaviour can be ‘soft-’ or ‘hard-coded’ is useful shorthand for nurture and nature—programming from parents, society, and environment... See more

21% of 1272 freelancers surveyed reporting that the rise of generative AI has negatively impacted the demand for their services 25 but without appropriate legislation it is incredibly difficult to demand compensation. Whilst change is certainly fear-inducing in and of itself, navigating these changes with no safety net in place to ensure basic... See more

Has the use of AI tools allowed her to speed through the tedious parts of her work, freeing up time to focus on the more stimulating aspects? “Speed isn’t really the point,” she replies. “That discourse usually comes from people who don’t really use the tools in interesting or meaningful ways. There’s so much clickbait content, like: ‘How I set up... See more

SummaryYancey argues that the way we define our self influence how we value things. As a result of the move from collectivism to individualism, a new form of creating our identities is created called the post-individual. Post-individuals define their identity as much through their individual traits as through the groups and communities they... See more

Put simply, a network state is an online community that materializes in the physical world with the goal of achieving meaningful collective action.