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LM Sacasas
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LM Sacasas
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Thinking About Technology and Culture | Newsletter: theconvivialsociety.substack.com | Book: gum.co/CWRfq
- The shitposters are from the future. They were sent back in time to thwart the singularity.Seems the origin of the Google AI’s conclusion was an 11 year old Reddit post by the eminent scholar, fucksmith.
- You know what I think about a lot? That time that Hayao Miyazaki was shown an AI demonstration and replied simply with “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”Apple's Vision Pro comes with EyeSight, a feature that reveals your eyes when with another person, hides them when you're immersed in VR and blends the real world in as it appears before you. #WWDC23 tcrn.ch/3WMFTYh
01:43introducing friend. not imaginary. order now at friend.com- Random take nobody asked for: One of the most profound yet unacknowledged costs associated with modern technology has been the loss of the star-filled night sky.
- If we extend our nervous system indiscriminately into the whole world, we should not be surprised to find that we are perpetually anxious, exhausted, and demoralized.
- “But what I am claiming here is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience.” — Neil Postman
- We’ve gone from creating tools to accomplish what we desire to desiring only what our tools can accomplish.
- "And, what the computer people don’t realize–or they don’t care–is we’re dancing animals. You know; we love to move around. And we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore." Kurt Vonnegut, from a 2005 interview (h/t @mattCivico)
- “When you give people too much information, they instantly resort to pattern recognition." — Marshall McLuhan
- McLuhan argued that, pushed to its limits, a medium flips or reverses its characteristics. Internet scale pushes information into disinformation, connection into loneliness, and desire into apathy.
