I'm getting just a tad bit tired of companies re-appropriating terms like "local first", "operating system", "internet".
"Local first" is not "uses a datacenter in your general area".
And neither "operating system" nor "internet" mean "a closed source website with a closed beta that breaks basic web features".

The first one is of course from an AI company that I won't name. The second is from #Metalabel and from them I actually expected better, but maybe I was misguided.

> This #book is a financial experiment
https://blog.metalabel.com/this-book-is-a-financial-experiment/

This is quite an interesting approach, reminds me a bit of the short lived Assembly freelancing experiment.
cc #publishing #economics #Metalabel

This book is a financial experiment

When you buy this book, profit will be redistributed to the people cited within

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โ•NEW RELEASE โ”

๐—”๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐˜๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—จ๐—ฝ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ?

Not all forms of power announce themselves. Some move quietly, shaping how we feel, act and inhabit the world.

๐—”๐—น๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ง๐—ผ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ผ, ๐—”๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜… ๐—ค๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ผ, ๐—ก๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ ๐—ขโ€™ ๐— ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜‚ฬ, ๐—ก๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฎ ๐—ง๐—ฎ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ, ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฎ ๐—•๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป & ๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐—บ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป๐—ฒ and ๐—ช๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—บ ๐—ญ. ๐—”๐—น๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ถ examine the intensifying form of totalitarianism grounded in the quiet background logic of contemporary technology.

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> https://aksioma.org/are-you-a-software-update
> or on #Metalabel https://aksioma.metalabel.com/aksioma-16?variantId=1

'What's the difference between an #artist and a #creator?

Yancey Strickler on the #Metalabel Blog:

https://blog.metalabel.com/whats-the-difference-between-an-artist-and-a-creator/?ref=the-metalabel-blog-newsletter

โ€˜Creative work done for artistic purposes is thought to exist for reasons above #money. "Love and honorโ€ is a convenient excuse to not compensate for it, โ€œexposureโ€ too. Creative work for commercial purposes, on the other hand, can be handsomely rewarded. โ€ฆ

The people who make the first kind of work are historically called โ€œfine artists.โ€ The people who make the second kind of work are called โ€œcommercial artists.โ€ โ€ฆ.

In recent decades a similar but distinct creative role has emerged: the creator. People who make a living from #subscriptionsm #crowdfunding, selling #merch, and other forms of direct exchange unlocked by the web. Like artists, creators have a lot of freedom in what they do. โ€ฆ Unlike artists, they don't have to navigate the academy system or #artworld politics to do it. โ€˜

What's the difference between an artist and a creator?

Parsing some crucial and nuanced distinctions

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Continuing on the #Metalabel tipโ€ฆ

My copy of Chance Would Be a Fine Thing arrived at the weekend.

https://metalabel-ktav.metalabel.com/chance-would-be-a-fine-thing-book?retryCount=1&variantId=1

Itโ€™s a design-forward, twenty-first-century contribution to the tradition of Mallarmรฉโ€™s Un Coup de Dรฉs (A Throw of the Dice). Created by the Bangkok-based collective for potential #design, Copode.

I especially like their refusal to either uncritically celebrate #AI or lapse into fatalism about it. I also appreciate their emphasis on creating something unexpected, something that even takes them by surprise, as well as the way the #book looks toward exploring alternative models for collaboration between humans and #technologies.