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The Reenchanted World, by Karl Ove Knausgaard

i'm always getting too bleak about technology and AI, about the brain rot and disassociation and spiraling out and general cognitive decline we're all experiencing, that will only continue to worsen with time. but this essay gave me some hope “Do you see a way out?” “Yeah, I mean . . . I’m not in the business of saving the world, but it would definitely be a better and more interesting place if more people were involved in making these things. That’s the fundamental thing: that if more software, more buildings, more social spaces, and more everything were designed by more people, of course it would produce a more interesting and better world! ...One of Stafford Beer’s more famous and brilliant phrases was ‘POSIWID,’ which stands for ‘the purpose of the system is what it does.’ It’s a kind of maxim of cybernetics. And it’s very good for diagnosing systems. Instead of saying, Oh, we have a democratic system, we have an education system, you say, The purpose of the system is what it does. And what our society produces is people who are undereducated, or just educated enough to perform specific tasks—the way to get a good education is to study something that has this high economic value. Apart from that, you are pretty fucked. The purpose of the system is to reproduce the existing power dynamics of that system again and again. That is what it does. Society has no interest in educating you in how technology works. Because then you make your own technology, and you make different technology, and you upset the economic power balance and so forth. But it is doable, and people are doing it all the time. You can do it yourself.”

@pratibha

May 30, 2025

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ANTI REC: AI AND THE OVERRELIANCE ON AUTOMATION

maybe i’m just being nitpicky. the whole AI thing has been spoken on, and I am so hypocritical on, i do use it, frequently. I do still think it’s an issue, i do feel like i did at some point lose the ability to think for myself because of a reliance on AI. but even so, just the reliance on typing. yeah, i do prefer it, but i could still write pages and pages without much issue i do believe analogue work is just as important. people complaining about their hands hurting after just a few pages ://. to each their own, i think people need to write more, and think for themselves more, and be able to sit comfortably in not knowing who they are. ALSO, people need to walk, if you can, move ur body. so much is being lost to cars, and computers, and AI. it’s just sad. also lithography is dying. thank you for reading my brain dump.

@athenainsight

May 27, 2025

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if you've already read about ai slop, go here next

It's a bit of a slow burner, but I appreciate the technical details she focuses on. Like, what the tics of ai instruct us about human use of language and associations And I appreciate her overall philosophical take. She's not fighting all the ways ai is imperfect, while she acknowledges a couple of problems, but I think that by getting excited about how it's a mirror, she reveals a sort of optimism for the future. Here to stay, so let's have fun with the good bits N+1 article by Rachel Ossip

@heynah

Oct 25, 2024

Top Recs from @lon

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waking yourself up before getting killed in a dream

phew....dodged that bullet by teleportation into consciousness

@lon

Mar 5, 2024

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art education

i'm a teacher.

@lon

Feb 7, 2024

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current letterboxd faves

fish tank • i've recced this before, raw, social realism, about a strong stubborn teenage girl, coming of age, cannot watch this often, but when i do it always makes me feel alive! ponyo • my favorite ghibli, cute song, target audience is younger than some other ghiblis, ancient fishes!!! awe-some mothers! comfort film the taste of tea • i've also recced separately on here before, slice of life, funnyyyy, cute, beautiful, watched this a lot over the years somewhere • i have this on blu ray... watched it many times, of all coppola films this one feels closest to me

@lon

Mar 23, 2024