via Yancy Strickler: “ This is the power of infrastructure: a decision made by one generation becomes the default inherited by the next.”
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“ The superintelligence discourse functions as a sophisticated apparatus of power, transforming immediate questions about corporate accountability, worker displacement, algorithmic bias and democratic governance into abstract philosophical puzzles about consciousness and control.”
via Adam Tooze: “ a quote from Opalo delivers the political punchline: “people discuss debt burdens and the cost of credit on TV talk shows” rather than ethnic politics. “In Kenya the economy is now a much bigger part of the political discourse than it was even a decade ago. That is an urbanisation story.”
Jill Magdid
“It’s a problem when most meaning makers don’t feel optimistic about their own work, yet the public is increasingly looking to brands for social change. After all, businesses are still trusted more than governments, the media, and NGOs.
If brands weren’t so important in people’s construction of self (values, differentiation, belonging, etc.), we won’t see so many people filming themselves burning products and “voting” with unsubscription screenshots. A logo is never just a logo.”
“Renting a supertanker to carry oil from the Persian Gulf to Asia now costs about $1.4 million a day according to Bloomberg. Pre-war, it was about $30,000.”
What does it meant to immerse our hands in the dirt of the internet? Where does the boundary between the web and the internet lie?
“We’re scanning not reading.”
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=132245&post_id=220800368
Power, particularly social power, is not a zero-sum game.
When upward mobility feels like worse odds than the casino, who wouldn’t choose the casino? And we have so many casinos now.
Thanks to Rachel Aviv, I now know that there is such a thing as autoimmune psychosis.
Basically this is becoming a well of vague posting, but in that vein—a sense of infinite possibility can be a bummer, in its paralyzing horizons.
Probability and statistical forecast are pre-requisites for financial speculation. Everything needs its number.
Day trading has been superseded by 24/7 trading. A constant churn of bets in the glow of wrap around tiles of monitors.
Always keep your curiosity
tightly wrapped around your heart.
The depth vs breadth question aka the generalist vs specialist question… I am haunted by it.
Daily or sporadic? One of many questions.
san diego is a well lit city.
Dataland.
this is a search query.