Taste in the Age of Machines
AI can generate infinite content, but it can’t decide what should exist. Taste, built through exposure and discernment, is the real edge in the age of machines.
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A Field Guide to Antimemetics
On Nadia Asparouhova’s book about ideas engineered to disappear, and why some of the most consequential ideas resist spreading.
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You Don’t Get to Choose
The consumer doesn’t control the means of production. The technology arrives whether anyone votes for it or not. After Ellul.
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The Phones Aren’t Doing It to You
Envy, narcissism, loneliness: things tech amplifies, not creates. Why the fentanyl analogy for social media is absurd.
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Software Isn’t Free
The largest public-goods experiment in history, paid for by ads, resented most by the people who benefit most.
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Rational Optimism Is Always the Way Out
Technology has always run on one belief: that problems can be solved and progress is possible.
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Technologos
Discourses on technology, culture, and society.
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Technologos
Discourses on technology,
culture, and society.
culture, and society.
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