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Photography8
Andreas Vlach
Productivity232
Johanna

My father was a Sarkari Babu (government officer with basic salary) his entire life, he was at one job throughout his life. He drove a Bajaj scooter

So much productivity is fueled by negative emotions. You're afraid of getting a bad grade as a teen, so you study for tomorrow's big test late into th

Perfectionism7
Andreas Vlach

“I think the only fate worse than misfit-hood, for anyone, is self-pity. The loser mentality is an insult to God because you’re handed a singular unre

there doesn't have to be an end goal you can just make useful things for people who want to use them, and live a happy life

what is Social Media doing to us?243

Articles about social media platforms and their effects on society.

Jerod Morris

“It is not easy to convince people that I am not dealing with ideas but with perceptions, not concepts but observations. It is easy to disseminate ide

Although still using the language of tools, in 1988 Illich explained, “I would like to get together a certain number of people to think about what too

Digital capitalism does not pose the same kind of threats as industrial capitalism, in part because it does not act on us through straightforward inst

“Everyone will just prompt their own movies” “Everyone will just prompt their own apps” You don’t get it. Humans crave shared context. They want to

Society6
Andreas Vlach

Manpower without unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power. Vallabhbhai Patel

The thing people tend to forget about Fahrenheit 451 is that Bradbury is pretty clear about how by the time they started burning books no one was read

Digital capitalism does not pose the same kind of threats as industrial capitalism, in part because it does not act on us through straightforward inst

“Everyone will just prompt their own movies” “Everyone will just prompt their own apps” You don’t get it. Humans crave shared context. They want to

Politics52
Andreas Vlach

Was aber infolge eines nicht auskömmlich finanzierten öffentlichen Raumes, der diesen Titel wegen seiner Infrastruktur-Dysfunktionalität sowohl auf de

Die Wahlen in Deutschland sind nicht nur emotionale Reaktionen von Shit- und Wutbürgern – es sind auch rational begründbare Quittungen für einen immer

We just know that something feels wrong, but we don’t quite have new ideas about what to do about it. At best, we’re recycling old ones and say we’ll

„Alternative Politik funktioniert über den Körper, den Atem, die Fantasie, auch über Berührungen, Sinnlichkeit und Sexualität.“

Politikunzufriedenheit5
Andreas Vlach

Aus der Diskrepanz zwischen immensen Steuermitteln und enormen Infrastruktur-Defiziten erhellt sich der Siegeszug des Populismus. Wenn der Staat in de

We just know that something feels wrong, but we don’t quite have new ideas about what to do about it. At best, we’re recycling old ones and say we’ll

people think they want choices. but they prefer good defaults.

„Alternative Politik funktioniert über den Körper, den Atem, die Fantasie, auch über Berührungen, Sinnlichkeit und Sexualität.“

Our Times71
Andreas Vlach

“It is a principal aspect of the electric age that it establishes a global network that has much of the character of our central nervous system. Our c

... Leo writes that technology is not neutral, ‘because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate and use it.’ Yet this i

„Dieses Jahrhundert verbietet uns das Denken nicht. Es hält uns dermaßen beschäftigt, dass wir das Denken verlernen.“

Art & Chess10
Andreas Vlach
art82
Emi
Anxiety Coffee Procrastination Break79
Andreas Vlach

Stop assuming that people are mad at you. Stop attempting to read people's minds. Stop trying to manage the thoughts and emotions of others. Let peopl

“I think the only fate worse than misfit-hood, for anyone, is self-pity. The loser mentality is an insult to God because you’re handed a singular unre

Read Later6
Andreas Vlach
Design2
Andreas Vlach
How to Survive AI52
Andreas Vlach

The models need us to keep experiencing new things, just as the universe needs us to keep experiencing new things. We need to keep experiencing new th

? Is technology or culture the problem?48
Andreas Vlach

McLuhan put it this way: “The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bo

... Leo writes that technology is not neutral, ‘because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate and use it.’ Yet this i

Although still using the language of tools, in 1988 Illich explained, “I would like to get together a certain number of people to think about what too

Sublime24
Andreas Vlach

I I really think that creativity is going to become a lot more important and surprise and personality and originality like that's the premium that wil

think of your ideas as people / your children. I want my ideas to go hang out with other ideas, I don't want them hanging out in a room full of schedu

we have entered the era of mass produced mediocrity. swallow and follow the silence long enough for an original impulse to emerge. find the kindred li

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.29
Andreas Vlach

, "And in the end, I believe that we don't need to do anything to be loved. We spend our lives trying to seem prettier, smarter. But I realized two th

“We know things in the act, not in their essence.” – Peter Putnam

AI is a technology of the word itself. It externalizes and automates the human logos. And because it can so closely mimic our ordinary speech, it prom

Capitalism20
Andreas Vlach

Schlaf ist die kompromisslose Unterbrechung der uns vom Kapitalismus geraubten Zeit. Die meisten der scheinbar unhintergehbaren Notwendigkeiten mensch

Digital capitalism does not pose the same kind of threats as industrial capitalism, in part because it does not act on us through straightforward inst

The novel threat is no longer economic inequality or naked exploitation as such; it is that human beings will come to enthusiastically identify our ha

Being Different6
Andreas Vlach

, "And in the end, I believe that we don't need to do anything to be loved. We spend our lives trying to seem prettier, smarter. But I realized two th

Digital capitalism does not pose the same kind of threats as industrial capitalism, in part because it does not act on us through straightforward inst

Tools4
Andreas Vlach

The constraints of the medium, then, are the constraints of our embodiment, or at least that is my proposition to you. And these are, in part, the con

Some note-taking software will now show you a subset of your notes at regular intervals to help you jog your memory; a third-party plug-in for this is

Thinking is fundamentally done alone

Although still using the language of tools, in 1988 Illich explained, “I would like to get together a certain number of people to think about what too