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Laura Matsue on Twitter / X
The most radical thing you can do to rebel against this emerging post-literate, brain-slop-world we are entering is read long, complicated books on a daily basis. The ability to pay attention for long periods will be one of the most valuable and rare skills of the future.— Laura Matsue (@lauramatsue) October 18, 2026
Enshittification | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Be the Bark :: madhatted.com
Wow! This takes me back! Please check the date this post was authored, as it may no longer be relevant in a modern context.
Gareth Icke on Twitter / X
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." - John LennonSeems appropriate. pic.twitter.com/1ZP3x756Lf— Gareth Icke (@garethicke) April 7, 2026
Revenge of the Dilettantes
Book club and AI adventures, age of bespokeness, study groups, new rules of engagement
Revenge of the Dilettantes
Book club and AI adventures, age of bespokeness, study groups, new rules of engagement
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
Insults | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Deconstructing the algorithmic sublime
This special theme contextualizes, examines, and ultimately works to dispel the feelings of “sublime”—of awe and terror that overrides rational thought—that much of the contemporary public discourse on algorithms encourages. Employing critical, reflexive, and ethnographic techniques, these authors show that while algorithms can take on a multiplicity of different cultural meanings, they ultimately remain closely connected to the people who define and deploy them, and the institutions and power relations in which they are embedded. Building on a conversation we began at the Algorithms in Culture conference at U.C. Berkeley in December 2016, we collectively study algorithms as culture (Seaver, this special theme), fetish (Thomas et al.), imaginary (Christin), bureaucratic logic (Caplan and boyd), method of governance (Coletta and Kitchin; Lee; Geiger), mode of inquiry (Baumer), and mode of power (Kubler). [Box: see text]
Iain McGilchrist – Rediscovering Wisdom in a World Gone Mad
Helena Norberg-Hodge talks to Iain McGilchrist, a one-of-a-kind thinker, Oxford literary scholar, and doctor in psychiatry and neuroscience.
machines will never understand language
I thought language was too complicated for machines to understand, until I got sick. a lifelong, meandering journey of parsing, learning, and fixing my broken body.
W Social is a textbook case for everything wrong with digital sovereignty
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. This saying is attributed to the famous socialist (and theoretical physicist) Albert Einstein but actually traces back to novelist Rita Mae Brown. I have been thinking about this saying a lot lately. The reason is
"There is a contrast between my biological development, confidently realizing its in-built norm, and my fumbling psychological development, realizing partially..one among many apparently possible orders .. Learning what to want is the most radical, the most painful and the most creative art of life"
