Victoria Rooke
@victoriatwig
Victoria Rooke
To me, the key to keeping taste is to be true to yourself. While I recognize that that sentiment would be more appropriate on a wine mom’s wall hanging, it is surprisingly hard. When no one cares about you and you make objects for the simple joy of creation, you’re under no pressure to conform your taste to anyone. When your audience grows—when... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
The individual and
The below quote by William S. Burroughs is only becoming more relevant with time:
'What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.'
'What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.'
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AI and
There’s a magical number of people that are meant to enjoy or experience something…the second you cross that threshold it becomes a pumpkin…greed scaled it to a point where it [Vice] mutated and no longer ressembled what made it special in the first place.
Vice is Broke, Eddie Huang 2024
Documentary for Mubi
« We are writing our story from the beginning from that moment in time. Tranquility comes with anonymity, the ability to write our story every time we meet someone new. When you are known you loose the ability to rewrite or tell from a different perspective, you are owned by the word. » Trevor Noah
https://open.spotify.com/episode/01bkWcFMXRCqISUzHP
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Our mission at Worms is to celebrate the power of information in books, gathering for conversation, and sharing resources. We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and all affected by genocide, colonisation, and occupation across the globe.
We’ve shared this before, here it is again — one of our writers... See more
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The question is not whether algorithms can ever foster greatness—they cannot. Their design is fundamentally at odds with the qualities that define great art: depth, complexity, and the capacity to provoke discomfort or transformation. The question is whether we, as creators and consumers, are willing to resist their influence.
Resistance does not... See more
Resistance does not... See more
Dr. Felix S. Grenwood • Algorithms of Mediocrity — william
Art and
All desire is a desire for being.”
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.
Future and
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open.spotify.comMost skills/occupations are replaceable with superintelligence. But there will always an unexplainable niche eg artisanal handmade products, a wealthy person wants a human account
Free labour —> free wealth so the next question will be how do we derive meaning without work. What do we do to find meaning in our free 40hours.
Young great minds should be focusing on making narrow AI to solve specific problems (eg breast cancer) over superintelligence. Creating supperintelligence is contrary to improving their quality of life. BUT their is a race between nations, so it becomes about delaying the time taken to make it. We have to appeal to personal self interest to encourage those capable of creating these technologies that it is not an ideal outcome.
Why aren’t we talking about female radicalisation?
open.spotify.comWomen also enact mysogyny on our bodies. For example Tumblr as a space that promoted violence on female bodies (pro Ana, self harm, hyper sexualisation and kink)
When we police language, it just gets pushed further underground, harder to find and address
Why are people turning to white nationalism - from fear, poverty. This includes women but if we limit our idea of radicalisation to physical violence and not other forms, political violence, then we are ignoring a wave if radicalisation
As long as there is gender women will never be free