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Thomas
FROM MONOMODAL TO MULTIMODAL METAPHORS THE COGNITIVE METAPHOR
slidetodoc.comWhat did Huxley believe would bring about this dystopia? Not a global world order or a charismatic despot: “The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency.”
Christine Rosen • On The Death of Daydreaming
Social media’s combination of global reach,
performance metrics, platform design, content
format, and algorithmic interference have changed
how creators make for others, and how others
perceive and interact with creators' work.
The results are an eternal presence, persistent
feedback, an unrealistic expectation of virality,
harmful social comparison,
... See moreMatt Klein • Page Not Found
Content has become like clay. LLMs can remix it, summarize it, elaborate on it, hallucinate it, combine it with other content, freely transform it between text, audio, image, and back again. It seems we have achieved a kind of information post-scarcity. A regime of radical overproduction. A content singularity. How will this change things?
Gordon Brander • LLMs and information post-scarcity
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ut how
, specifically, can you understand the subjective workings of another person’s mind? Well, you don’t want to peer
at
them; you want to engage
with
them. Looking at a person is different from looking at a thing because a person is looking back at you. I’m getting to know you at the same time you’re getting to know me. To truly see someone... See more
ut how
, specifically, can you understand the subjective workings of another person’s mind? Well, you don’t want to peer
at
them; you want to engage
with
them. Looking at a person is different from looking at a thing because a person is looking back at you. I’m getting to know you at the same time you’re getting to know me. To truly see someone... See more
archive.ph
Leisure, it must be clearly understood, is a mental and spiritual attitude—it is not simply the result of external factors, it is not the inevitable result of spare time, a holiday, a weekend or a vacation. It is, in the first place, an attitude of mind, a condition of the soul, and as such utterly contrary to the ideal of “worker” in each and... See more
Leisure: The Basis of Culture
So: stop calling yourself and your coworkers “ICs”. You are a designer, an engineer, a producer. Your contribution deserves more than a moniker that is made to dehumanize you, purpose-built to make you replaceable. Do not help this dehumanizing system to dehumanize you by normalizing this kind of language!