"AI asks that you buy into the idea that more data means being closer to The Truth. It means that you should want to offload your limited cognition to the super machine. And perhaps most dangerously — that you understand all of this as a scientific endeavour."
https://disjunctionsmag.com/articles/ends-of-ai/
The Ends of AI
Sycophancy and psychosis
Disjunctions“Discovery died and curation replaced it”. Brilliant read this, read under duress because of the platform it’s on. I felt a huge wave of nostalgia for a time when I enjoyed stuff because I enjoyed it; when I was seriously happy in the middle.
https://readfoundobject.substack.com/p/they-killed-normal-and-called-it
They Killed Normal and Called It Progress
Julia Roberts, Applebee's, Bandcamp, your manager, and the death of everything in between. (Also, Sweetgreen is the A24 of dining and I will die on this hill.)
Found ObjectMariam Issoufou: "At university, I actively sought out courses on regional architecture and building with local materials. In Niger, that means clay and earth. The work of Francis Kéré was a significant influence and served as a kind of blueprint."
https://www.detail.de/de_en/wir-haben-die-richtige-technik-fur-das-bauen-mit-lehm-verlernt

„We Have Forgotten the Proper Techniques for Building with Earth”
Mariam Issoufou began early on to make earthen architecture socially acceptable in West African cities. An interview about her experience with natural materials, climate change in Africa, and what she has learned from software engineering for her career as an architect.
The art studio has never been busier. It is full of people escaping their professions.
PASSION RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME.
We know the risks inherent in not seeing the wood for the trees. But what if we become so focussed on seeing the whole that we no longer see the trees for the wood? The biggest changes often begin deep within. From afar the wood can appear as if nothing is changing.
“I can't help but feel a big part of why the world is so awfully broken is that most people who worry a lot about the consequences of their actions deliberately go into a profession like bookselling where the amount of harm you can do to the world around you is limited.” ~ Henry Sotheran Ltd
“I am not saying I have lost hope. It just doesn’t come by so often any more. It has moved away. It was quite undramatic. It did not slam a door, it is more … like a plant that has scattered it seeds where they are more likely to grow.” ~ Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume