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He has distanced himself from the faction known as “e/acc” or “effective accelerationism,” a term used by Beff Jezos, Marc Andreessen, and others as a winking dig at effective altruism. (Altman has tipped his hat to e/acc too, once replying “you cannot out accelerate me” to one of Jezos’s tweets—another sign that he serves at the pleasure of the ph
... See moreNate Silver • On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
Jason Parham Culture • The Age of Everything Culture Is Here
The reason I write about technology, is to provide a trail of my thoughts as we work through what it means to be molded by the tools we seek to mold.
We are absolutely massaged over by technology. And the internet, what has taken over more of our perceived reality than the truly experienced physical embod... See more
Reggie James • Rough Notes: Memory, Identity, and Transformation
The playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar described our “click-bait consciousness,” trained to interact with anything in the feed designed to be triggering. “The worship of algorithms is mutilating creative industries,” the television writer Cord Jefferson complained. “Culture is no longer made. It is simply curated from existing culture, refined, an
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
Both collectively and individually, the experience of watching TV in 2016 already feels totally disconnected from the experience of watching TV in 1996.
