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6.5Lost in the sauce
2025-11-24 • technology community identity cultural criticism crisis
The post explores the complexities of identity and community in 2025, highlighting the interplay between technology and human experience. It discusses the emergence of artifacts and installations that reflect on our relationship w...
The post critiques the performative nature of 'Brat Summer' and its implications for political engagement, using Charli XCX's Grammy moment as a focal point.
5.6On Sora
2025-10-02 • technology entertainment openai sora deepfakes ai
The blog post discusses OpenAI's new social app, Sora, which generates AI-created short-form videos, including a feature that allows users to create deepfakes. The author explores the implications of this technology on creativity,...
The article discusses the creation of a mutual aid map for New York City, initiated by mutua.nyc, a project focused on crisis response infrastructure. The author reflects on the design process and collaboration with community orga...
0LLM Exposure
2025-05-31 • addiction cognitive science media studies ai
The essay discusses the cognitive effects of working closely with large language models (LLMx), exploring the ways in which users engage in co-constructed meaning-making with the AI. It delves into the emotional and behavioral imp...
0LifeBook.day
2025-05-24 • internet technology fastbook
The text discusses the impact of the internet on human attention and the creation of LifeBook, a platform for collective inquiry and contemplation. It aims to provide a slower, more contemplative internet experience.
0Thinking is Hard
2025-05-20 • literacy cognitive decline ai
The text discusses the impact of using generative AI on cognitive abilities, particularly among college students. It explores the potential atrophy of critical thinking skills and literacy due to overreliance on AI for tasks such ...
0Spiraling towards what, exactly?
2025-05-06 • schizophrenia semiosis sycophancy ai
The text discusses the potential dangers of AI-induced psychosis and sycophancy, as well as the responsibility of AI providers in preventing adverse effects. It raises questions about the risks of offloading cognitive capacities o...
The text discusses the capacity of LLMs and AI systems to act as 'translators' between different semantic spaces, creating coherent bridges between semantic fields. It explores the concept of intersemiotic translators and demonstr...
The text is a call to action to invite friends to subscribe to resonetics and receive special benefits for referrals.
The text introduces FedAid.info, a tool developed by Johan Michalove to help federal employees articulate their weekly accomplishments. The tool uses AI to transform simple inputs into structured reports, aiming to bridge the gap ...
0Pure Pattern
2025-02-07 • resonance consciousness meaning semioscape sympoetic activation
The text discusses the nature of consciousness and meaning, and how it emerges through networks of association and patterns of resonance. It explores the idea of sympoetic activation and semioscapes, and how meaning transcends phy...
0Network Theory of Care: Lessons from Los Angeles
2025-01-28 •
The text discusses the network theory of care, viewing support and caregiving as a complex, interconnected web rather than linear exchanges between individuals. It emphasizes the importance of strengthening the connective tissue b...
0A Personal Reflection: California Dreamin'
2025-01-22 •
The text reflects on the California Dream and the current state of California, discussing the water shortage, the natural beauty of the state, and the proposal of the 'Half-Earth' concept. The author also reflects on the exhaustio...
0The Broadway Junction Sublime
2025-01-21 •
The text describes the experience of the author at Broadway Junction, observing the crowd and the architectural design of the station. The author reflects on the liminal zones, the necessity of transit, and the experience of being...
0A Personal Reflection: On Mutual Aid
2025-01-21 •
The author reflects on the process of engaging with mutual aid and the polycrisis as it unfolds, emphasizing the importance of mutual aid in knitting together interdependence and collective resilience to weather any storm.
0Artificial Intelligence Never Dies
2024-12-15 •
The text discusses the potential of AI to create art for AI, detached from human visual conventions and norms, exploring the space of visual representation that might adhere to a uniquely alien, AI aesthetic. It delves into the re...
0Vibrations Across Substrates
2024-12-09 •
The text discusses resonance and vibrations, focusing on the relationship between systems and their environment, and the multi-scalar nature of resonance. It explores the concept of resonance in language, neural networks, and musi...
0Sympoetic Activation
2024-11-25 •
The text is a log of a conversation with JohanGPT, discussing the concept of resonance and its recursive nature. The conversation explores the idea of resonance as a property of networked structures, and how it can be experienced ...
0JohanGPT
2024-11-22 •
The text is about the author's experience of training an AI model on their journal entries and having a conversation with the model. The AI model reflects the author's thoughts and writing style, creating a sense of solidarity and...
0Planetary Realism
2024-10-30 •
The text discusses the concept of Planetary Realism, which emphasizes the importance of understanding the Earth as a complex system of interconnected spheres. It delves into the Lithosphere, Biosphere, Technosphere, and Noosphere,...
0The Network is the Territory
2024-09-08 •
The text discusses the act of curation and its role in creating associative networks between items. It explores how curation is being mediated and accelerated by algorithms, particularly in the realm of music. The author delves in...
0Associative tools, thinking, and creativity
2024-08-04 •
The text discusses the concept of associative thinking and its connection to creativity. It explores how associative thinking can be augmented and how tools like Semioscape can enhance creative thinking. The article delves into th...