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Join our pilgrimage through the dark forest to the emerald labyrinth.
In an age wherein people are increasingly isolated from meaningful irl connection, “stooping” as a deliberate and simple act of community building by drinking morning coffee on the stoop
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The core principle of status as a service is that social media platforms make you do work to earn status, and this is how they grow.
But isn’t this falling apart?
The essay mentions Prisma: a photo filter app that was too easy, and the tech too good.
Hello TikTok? In both cases, the emphasis is not on any one user, but how tech can turn mediocre inputs into top tier outputs.
Indeed, vertical videos platforms are full of automated faceless videos which don’t take much work (hello @fun)
The best content is still handmade, but is the correlation from work to status still there?
Modern social media platforms succeeded despite disconnecting visible work from success.
With this link broken, how can social media still be about status?
But isn’t this falling apart?
The essay mentions Prisma: a photo filter app that was too easy, and the tech too good.
Hello TikTok? In both cases, the emphasis is not on any one user, but how tech can turn mediocre inputs into top tier outputs.
Indeed, vertical videos platforms are full of automated faceless videos which don’t take much work (hello @fun)
The best content is still handmade, but is the correlation from work to status still there?
Modern social media platforms succeeded despite disconnecting visible work from success.
With this link broken, how can social media still be about status?
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“We wanted to build a haven for creative people to find each other, trusting that, if we built a safe and solid framework, the outcomes would be varied, diverse, and always changing — an expression of the community from which they emerge.”
https://garden3d.substack.com/p/a-space-that-holds
https://garden3d.substack.com/p/a-space-that-holds
"On-screen art is enjoyed IRL and in-screen art is meant to be appreciated inside of the computer. While the traditional painter presents a window into a virtual scene, the in-screen artist places images within a virtual world that the audience also occupies, and assumes that the viewer is also inside of that space."
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We Can’t Understand AI Using our Existing Vocabulary — via Builderberg
This position paper argues that, in order to understand AI, we cannot rely on our existing vocabulary of human words. Instead, we should strive to develop neologisms: new words that represent precise human concepts that we want to teach machines, or machine concepts that we need to learn.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.07586
This position paper argues that, in order to understand AI, we cannot rely on our existing vocabulary of human words. Instead, we should strive to develop neologisms: new words that represent precise human concepts that we want to teach machines, or machine concepts that we need to learn.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.07586
With our obsession with optionality, it is worthwhile to ask — would you have rather had clarity than option?
https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/would-you-rather-have-married-young
https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/would-you-rather-have-married-young
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Samuel ツ
@samuellhuber.eth·10:49 23/02/2025
The founder of Netlify should be on Farcaster
"Given the way social networks seem to be breaking apart and the communities I typically interact with are scattering, it’s time to return to owning my own little corner of the web."
Source: https://x.com/biilmann/status/1882160359647350942
"Given the way social networks seem to be breaking apart and the communities I typically interact with are scattering, it’s time to return to owning my own little corner of the web."
Source: https://x.com/biilmann/status/1882160359647350942
"If you remember one actionable idea from this post, make it “Gifts and slop are opposites.” The world is getting inundated with slop, and what makes it “slop” is the fact that no message is really received by anyone. AI Slop is maybe the lowest-bandwidth communication channel ever made, which isn’t necessarily obvious. Gifts are the opposite of this, because gift exchanges invite us to actually receive information from each other.”
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“With mediators, in fact, there always begin chains of mediators, otherwise known as networks. One is never done with them. But sociologists, like technologists, enemy brothers, believe they can come to an end, the former with the social, the latter with objects. The only thing they do not manage to end is their fratricidal war, a war that prevents us from understanding the world in which we live.”
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/P-36-Berliner-KEY-GBpdf.pdf
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/P-36-Berliner-KEY-GBpdf.pdf
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jihad ↑
@jihad·14:25 12/02/2025
New Essay: Native to Our Built Environments
The network is the product and your product shapes the network.
Great technologists do not merely ship products; they cultivate networks of aligned participants who build upon the worldview the technologist provides. Understanding your place in various networks, how networks form and evolve, what role your product is playing in shaping the network’s narrative – these are the skills of a great founder in the internet age.
The network is the product and your product shapes the network.
Great technologists do not merely ship products; they cultivate networks of aligned participants who build upon the worldview the technologist provides. Understanding your place in various networks, how networks form and evolve, what role your product is playing in shaping the network’s narrative – these are the skills of a great founder in the internet age.
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RM
@ramon·22:32 11/02/2025
Some thoughts on the finite games we play amongst ourselves while we lost the infinite vision we had for crypto and the internet as a whole.
https://paragraph.xyz/@rm/the-garden-and-the-machine?referrer=0x51665825742d7BDdDe2c24e4E48dF23662c24Ed5
https://paragraph.xyz/@rm/the-garden-and-the-machine?referrer=0x51665825742d7BDdDe2c24e4E48dF23662c24Ed5
great read about memeplexes by @macbudkowski
> in a world of increasing polarization and algorithmic echo chambers, I believe that being able to look outside the memeplex can be more valuable than ever
> in a world of increasing polarization and algorithmic echo chambers, I believe that being able to look outside the memeplex can be more valuable than ever
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