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The structure of games is not that the points are valuable, but that the attempt to get those points, the attempts to win the game and the game’s term
"games as agency"...what does this say about human "free-hood”? Free-hood seems a more apt word than “freedom”. I mean that the essence of human being
𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙙 & 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙜𝙡𝙚𝙨 More from C Thi Nguyen » “And Suits offers the following definition of what it is to play a game. He says, “To play
How could gaining knowledge amount to anything other than discovering what was already there? How could the truth of a statement or a theory be anythi
That we can write the prompt or query is not an emblem of our freedom but of our surrender. We give up on what we think the words mean and let the mac
That is, they understand the purpose of chatbots and generative models to be the ability to force other people to see a particular version of reality.
"Every product in the world, the quality at the end of the day is simply a reflection of how much the people who created it gave a shit about the prod
we have a world where friction gets automated out of experiences, aestheticized in curated lifestyles, and dumped onto underfunded infrastructure and
Long-tail users of user-centered design are not given the degree of control necessary to adapt the design object or tool to their unique needs, and de
design is the embodiment of values. Design is the ultimate commitment to or compromise of one’s values. And this is how we go about the world. We make
When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the typeface of least resistance.” Ti
As part of its purpose in slowing news down (hence the name), and taking time to make sense of what’s really going on in the world rather than just re
It is misleading then to argue that cultural circulation has been democratized. The means of circulation are algorithmic, and they are not subject to
The true influence of Post Internet People on general internet socialization was both more subtle and more important than simply a shiny new social ne
You can use algorithms to surface new things. But algorithms are not nearly as good as human curators yet. Whatever pattern matching is going on insid
That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rathe
Traumatisation is most usually presented as anunassailable, concrete fact, and this is where I need to be respectful. If someone brings a firmconvicti
when the trauma label has been appliedby outside mores – when an event like an explosion, an assault or a sexual event has taken place andour culture
We all know we’re overstimulated and want to stop, but we can’t. We use app blockers, throw our phones away, and build rigid routines. But none of it
humans don’t have fixed identities. we’re constantly testing. trying different versions of ourselves. seeing what gets rewarded. adjusting based on fe
I feel like there’s something so soulless about our culture—something deeply, deeply missing in people’s experience of life, a kind of superficiality.
In a digitally decentralized world where generative AI can lower the barriers of creation even farther than ever before, and bots can be trained under
When we spoke with Ruby Justice Thelot, cyber-ethnographer and adjunct professor of design and media theory at NYU, he referenced his now-published pi
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So when people opt to devote their energy to tracking the latest TikTok star or scrolling content instead of nurturing interpersonal relationships, th
Social media stopped being primarily about connecting socially a long time ago. People still use a range of technologies to connect to friends and bui
Taste for Privacy: How Context, Identity, and Lived-Experience Shape Information Sharing Preferences
The social-platform layer offers the feeling of encounter with the friction surgically removed. As one analysis of Gen Z’s parasocial turn put it, onl
Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will
we’ve always been influenced in what we find beautiful or valuable or important, of course, but what’s new is the speed at which one is inundated with
You can use algorithms to surface new things. But algorithms are not nearly as good as human curators yet. Whatever pattern matching is going on insid
Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills tha
Parnell shows that authors of color and queer authors are much more likely to have their work flagged as “adult content,” largely due to problems with
The whole thing about the Kardashians — the resistance they’ve kind of induced in people — is that it doesn’t feel consensual. You absorb information
My friends and I founded a university over the summer and...it's going great?! And it's been surprisingly painless to start and run?! It's a "networ
iron law of the internet: any movement or subculture will be judged by its most cringe members
Of course this is what museum culture does: it, depending on your point of view, loots historical artifacts from a context in which they are useful an
People who are intellectually humble know that their beliefs, opinions, and viewpoints are fallible because they realize that the evidence on which th
As appealing as it sounds, people are scared to think like a philosopher. Social media has turned us all into public relations professionals who pursu
LLMs have three new capabilities that change the nature of search: Intuitive leaps: LLMs can answer poorly written questions with spooky-accurate ans
Unlike vertical search aggregators, boutique search engines feel less like the Yellow Pages and more like texting your friends to ask for a recommenda
If we give them the room to breathe, creative works can live multiple lives. The works will stay online for years, decades even. It will make someone
What they don’t see, and what we continue to experience, is that while collaborating can be hard, it’s also a more rewarding, fruitful, and uplifting
I’ve been thinking about the enduring, perhaps increasing currency of personal recommendations (practically artisanal craft now if you think about it!
Knowing where to go and what to do is the currency that, in the modern aspiration economy, makes curators more important than influencers. They guide
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The text actually moves back and forth between all of these. Few novels pay less attention to the rules of fiction than Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even sur
It is predictable, then, that users are consistently fooled into believing that their AI companions are conscious persons, capable of feeling real emo
Interestingly, many users who emotionally mourned the ‘loss’ of GPT-4o expressed complete awareness of its lack of consciousness. And yet, in many cas
One might point out that movie characters or videogame NPCs give off a similarly deceiving impression of being conscious, and yet it would surely be e
people turn to AI with existential questions and complex, unresolved scientific problems because they think that the mystical processes in AI systems
My job is helping people who are building the future understand the cultural and emotional systems shaping it and right now, the problem is we are sti
Minimize your surface area. Don’t click, don’t share data and don’t feed the algorithm. Find safer, under the radar places for genuine exchange.
When extraction becomes this pervasive, people opt out. They go dark and build walls around what matters to them. And this is already happening. You c
Ambient extraction is different. It’s a level of vulnerability and theft that registers more emotionally and psychically than it does economically, an
Among the troubadours, there was a different class of people, called knowms. Thecouncil was told that the knowms had some special skills that may help
information becomes knowledge only through processes of verification and critical analysis.
This is what knowledge decay looks like. Not burning libraries, but a slow, structural dissolution of the connections between claims and their sources
Put another way, will humans will always want to do things like scroll Instagram, but perhaps won't ever want to open TurboTax/Docusign/Concur/Foursqu
A futuristic and unrealistic concept interface: the computer waits on the human instead of the human waiting on the computer.
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The most underrated note taking app is still the photo album. I can instantly recall what I was doing weeks or years ago. A single picture evokes a do
wispr (dictation tool) is amazing and i'm now using it 60%+ of the time when i would've typed before. i'm going to put my referral link below - if you
“As a medium, the internet is defined by a built-in performance incentive. In real life, you can walk around living life and be visible to other peopl
I am tired of seeing speed as a selling point. I’ve wanted to talk about this for a long time. I think one of the main reasons many of us feel anxio
From Lily Chambers: I genuinely do not care if AI tools make me more productive. I am tired of seeing, "increased productivity" as a selling point. I
What does it mean that OpenAI bought a media company? That doesn’t feel like a random acquisition. It feels like a sign that trusted voices, archives,