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⚠️ A One-Man Telemundo on TikTok: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/business/media/carlos-espina-tiktok.html ⚠️ Reflections on Trigger Warnings: A Practice of Care, a Refusal of Witnessing: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2024/07/11/reflections-on-trigger-warnings-a-practice-of-care-a-refusal-of-witnessing/ ⚠️ You Might Be Losing ‘Aura Points’ and Not Even Know It: https://www.gq.com/story/aura-points ⚠️ The algorithm will be the message: https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/the-algorithm-will-be-the-message/ ⚠️ Everyone Is Trying to Make This TikTok Go Viral—and It Never Will: https://www.wired.com/story/everyone-is-trying-to-make-this-tiktok-go-viral-and-it-never-will/ ⚠️ It’s the Summer of ‘Brats’: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/style/charli-xcx-brat-summer.html ⚠️ Coconutpilled and contextmaxxing: https://www.garbageday.email/p/coconutpilled-contextmaxxing ⚠️ Meme tattoos and the rise of post-ironic body art: https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/article/63181/1/meme-tattoos-and-the-rise-of-post-ironic-body-art ⚠️ Los Angeles Becomes First U.S. City to Outlaw Digital Discrimination: https://themarkup.org/still-loading/2024/02/01/los-angeles-becomes-first-us-city-to-outlaw-digital-discrimination

Happy weekend everyone! Although the internet is buzzing with trends like AI slop 🦐, Kamala is brat 🥥🌴, gore core and losing aura points according to Gen Z 🧘, we also plan to take a brief summer break from being chronically online until the start of September. In the meantime, enjoy our newly curated articles! See you then! 🏝⛱🌞🧴👙 P.s. Tomorrow is the deadline of the open call for our momfluencer image contribution! Submit your proposal here.

🥪 The Netflix Chief's Plan to Get You to Binge Even More: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4axQysU2ydtFxpxSKTDViZ?si=fvGhxuKMRQKLPaCGplD7qw 🥪 The Gore Layer: https://spikeartmagazine.com/articles/discourse-the-gore-layer-alex-quicho 🥪 How Influencers and Algorithms Are Creating Bespoke Realities for Everyone: https://www.wired.com/story/influencers-algorithms-bespoke-reality/ 🥪 Record labels are fighting back against the ChatGPT of AI music: https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/62956/1/record-labels-are-fighting-chatgpt-ai-music-udio-suno-lawsuit 🥪 AI is rewriting meme history: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-rewriting-meme-history/ 🥪 Spying on strangers in public is not accountability: https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/62968/1/spying-on-strangers-in-public-is-not-accountability-tiktok 🥪 A grieving mom’s TikTok videos spark online speech battle: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/10/aubreigh-wyatt-heather-wyatt-tiktok-bullying/ 🥪 In the age of cancel culture, shaming can be healthy for online communities – a political scientist explains when and how: https://theconversation.com/in-the-age-of-cancel-culture-shaming-can-be-healthy-for-online-communities-a-political-scientist-explains-when-and-how-221730 🍉 What role should internet personalities play in social movements? https://me.mashable.com/digital-culture/43386/meet-the-collective-of-creators-who-raised-16-million-for-humanitarian-relief-in-gaza 🍉 Social media activism can be performative – but sometimes that’s OK: https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/62737/1/is-performative-activism-better-than-nothing-all-eyes-on-rafah-palestine

Good morning everyone! It’s almost time for a little summer break, but we’ve got a lot of exiting plans this fall. The Hmm is investigating momfluencing for our fall research dossier. 🍼🤰📂 As part of it, we are launching an Open Call welcoming your image contributions. We are looking for imagery that reflects upon momfluencing playfully and critically. This can be in the form of a single image or video, or a series/combination of either/both. 🤳🏼 We can't wait to see what you have in store! Check out our website for more info! Deadline: Sunday 28 July 2024.

🦂 The human cost of an Apple update: https://embedded.substack.com/p/apple-ios-18-update-reaction 🦂 What the Arrival of A.I. Phones and Computers Means for Our Data: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/technology/personaltech/ai-phones-computers-privacy.html 🦂 Deepdreaming Willy Wonka: AI Weird as the New Kitsch: https://silviolorusso.com/publication/ai-weird-as-the-new-kitsch/ 🦂 In Defense of Calling Everything an Aesthetic: https://www.thecut.com/article/in-defense-of-calling-everything-an-aesthetic.html 🦂 Is Google SEO gaslighting the internet? https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/is-google-seo-gaslighting-the-internet 🦂 The age of cultural stagnation: https://newrepublic.com/article/179432/age-cultural-stagnation 🦂 Kat Kitay: The Dialectic of Doomscrolling https://donotresearch.substack.com/p/kat-kitay-the-dialectic-of-doomscrolling 🍉 Israel opposes rebuilding gaza’s internet access because terrorists could go online: https://theintercept.com/2024/06/21/israel-gaza-internet-rebuild/ 🍉 The ingenious ‘network tree’ defying Gaza's connectivity blockade: https://globalvoices.org/2024/06/13/the-ingenious-network-tree-defying-gazas-connectivity-blockade/

Good morning friends! 🌼 Today might be already the last sunny day for a while. We wouldn’t want you to spend your day inside, but here’s another weekend reading list just in case. Enjoy! ✨🧃⛱

🫀 The New Generation of Online Culture Curators: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-new-generation-of-online-culture-curators 🫀 Your Boyfriend Isn't Your Camera Man: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/your-boyfriend-isnt-your-camera-man 🫀 The Internet's Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/world/americas/starlink-internet-elon-musk-brazil-amazon.html 🫀The NYC AI chatbot that encourages people to break the law: https://themarkup.org/news/2024/04/02/malfunctioning-nyc-ai-chatbot-still-active-despite-widespread-evidence-its-encouraging-illegal-behavior 🫀 What Doge Taught Me About the Internet: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/what-doge-taught-me-about-the-internet 🫀 Unpopular opinion: AI won’t kill the music industry: https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/62787/1/ai-won-t-kill-the-music-industry-sevdaliza-fka-twigs-holly-herndon 🍉 Support the nationwide actions on the streets & campus! (Netherlands) https://www.gofundme.com/f/campingtripuva 🍉 Open call – The Netherlands student intifada archiving project https://intifada.mokumkraakt.nl/ 🍉 Protestor toolkit – Workers for Palestine Netherlands https://www.instagram.com/p/C6waHnjIx4F/?img_index=1 🍉 How to prepare your phone for a protest: https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2024/05/04/how-do-i-prepare-my-phone-for-a-protest-updated-2024 🍉 How Google results obscure the Nuseirat massacre: https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1800309517680312621

Good morning all! Hope your weekend is off to a good start. 💖 Until september there won’t be any Hmm events, but we are going to be part of some very exciting other activities. On the 20th of June you can join us for a full-day program at Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, during Living Archives: a Celebration of Design and Digital Culture. 📂✏️ And! If you havent been to one of our AI Prompt Battles yet, this is your chance to join the Foam x The Hmm Prompt Battle in Amsterdam, also on the 20th! 🛎🥊 Hope to see you there 🫶

🩴 Petitie: behoud 9% btw voor kunst en cultuur: https://petities.nl/petitions/behoud-9-btw-voor-kunst-en-cultuur?locale=nl 🩴 The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’ https://www.wired.com/story/low-paid-humans-ai-biden-modern-day-slavery/ 🩴 VPRO opent webshop: https://schein.vpro.nl/ 🩴 Why does everything online look the same?: https://linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/why-does-everything-online-look-the 🩴 The shiba inu that inspired the viral ‘doge’ meme has died: https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/62711/1/kabosu-shiba-inu-behind-the-viral-doge-meme-has-died 🩴 Google and OpenAI Are Battling for AI Supremacy: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/05/google-and-openai-are-battling-for-ai-supremacy/678388/ 🩴 Fake Russian influencers are going viral on Chinese social media: https://restofworld.org/2023/douyin-fake-russian-influencers/ 🩴 Faux ScarJo and the descent of the A.I. vultures: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/faux-scarjo-and-the-descent-of-the-ai-vultures 🩴The internet is good for you (unless you’re a young woman): https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/62616/1/the-internet-is-good-for-you-says-science 🍉 Israeli Weapons Firms Required to Buy Cloud Services from Google and Amazon https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/google-amazon-nimbus-israel-weapons-arms-gaza/ 🍉 Google Won't Say Anything About Israel Using Its Photo Software to Create Gaza "Hit List" https://theintercept.com/2024/04/05/google-photos-israel-gaza-facial-recognition/ 🍉 How a comedian started a TikTok movement for Gaza: https://embedded.substack.com/p/how-a-comedian-started-a-tiktok-movement 🍉 #ConnectingGaza eSim donations: https://gazaesims.com/ 🍉 Forbidden Colors Generator: https://www.d-act.org/forbiddencolors.html 🍉 How to prepare your phone for a protest: https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2024/05/04/how-do-i-prepare-my-phone-for-a-protest-updated-2024

Happy weekend everyone! 🕺🪩 As you might have seen on our other social media channels, we recently published a brand new dossier: The Perfect Feed! 🗞📂 In this dossier, we asked ourselves how we have ended up with our current social media feeds and explored the history and possible futures with technology historian Jason Scott, Are.na co-founder Daniel Pianetti, RGBdog & our Perfect Feed workshop participants, web artist yehwan song, and Margot Schlögel. Click here for exclusive interviews, an image contribution, musings, and much more! 🥹

🍋 Microsoft Pitched OpenAI's DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military: https://theintercept.com/2024/04/10/microsoft-openai-dalle-ai-military-use/ 🍋 Meet the influencer “curing” her kidney infection with “good vibes”: https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/62541/1/1968-shanin-blake-e-girls-pot-smoking-hippies-tiktok-aliens-influencer 🍋 An oral history of Black Twitter: https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-oral-history-part-i-coming-together/ 🍋 The cult of Nostalgia: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5shYfm88A5Rc7ZOfHNdECV?si=tEsoIJdiROCN_3n4cy2f7w&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A0podj5AKLOFvJAS1raltmw&nd=1&dlsi=8774a97b0dee43c4 🍋 The people who won't give up floppy disks: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240510-floppy-disks-why-some-people-are-still-in-love-with-this-obsolete-computer-storage-technology 🍋 New version of Chat-GPT can teach maths and flirt: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2xx1xe2evo 🍋 There's an AI for that: https://theresanaiforthat.com/ 🍋 Gen Z Are So Lonely They're Posting Friendship Applications on Facebook: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7em9x/friendship-applications-gen-z-loneliness 🍋 I went undercover as a secret OnlyFans chatter. It wasn’t pretty: https://www.wired.com/story/i-went-undercover-secret-onlyfans-chatter-wasnt-pretty/ 🍉 Why are social media users blocking celebrities over Israel’s Gaza war? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/13/why-are-social-media-users-blocking-celebrities-over-israels-gaza-war 🍉 It’s not a glitch: how Meta systematically censors Palestinian voices: https://www.accessnow.org/publication/how-meta-censors-palestinian-voices/

Good morning Hmm friends, here are all the articles we’ve read this week. 🫶 Enjoy the weekend! 🌻

🪨 Mind-reading technology has arrived: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/5/4/23708162/neurotechnology-mind-reading-brain-neuralink-brain-computer-interface 🪨 Chinese disinformation campaign uses AI to disrupt elections and sow discord: https://www.wired.com/story/china-bad-at-disinformation/ 🪨 Channeling the spirit of Myspace, Nospace prioritizes "social" over "media": https://www.stuff.co.nz/society/350256746/nospace-social-media-app-bringing-myspace-gen-z 🪨 Early sales of Apple's Vision Pro headset are disappointing, sparking questions about its future: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2024/04/25/the-apple-vision-pro-down-not-out-experts-say 🪨 The latest online culture war is humans vs. algorithms: https://www.wired.com/story/latest-online-culture-war-is-humans-vs-algorithms/ 🪨 The homepage of the black internet: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/blackplanet-social-media-history/677839/ 🪨 The dada era of internet memes: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-dada-era-of-internet-memes 🪨​ How a 4chan conspiracy (kind of) foresaw the death of the internet: https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/62472/1/4chan-dead-internet-theory-conspiracy-foresaw-the-death-of-the-internet 🪨​ Male Weepies: A Misunderstood Genre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4maNSmRPGEE 🪨 ​A viral interview clip projected OnlyFans model Girthmaster into the mainstream: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/girthmaster-onlyfans-creator-adult-star-viral-1235009248/ 🪨 ​The ghosts of India's TikTok: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240426-the-ghosts-of-indias-tiktok-social-media-ban 🪨 ​Marques Brownlee of MKBHD on his critical reviews of hyped up consumer electronics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0oKynCzZ50 🍉 #ConnectingGaza eSim donations: https://gazaesims.com/ 🍉 Forbidden Colors Generator by Noam Youngrak Son: https://www.d-act.org/forbiddencolors.html

Good morning! 🐙✨ Hope everyones weekend is off to a good start. Again we’ve gathered a bunch of articles for you to enjoy. We’d like to let you know that there are still spots available for the upcoming workshops: The Hmm ON The Perfect Feed in Arnhem and Amsterdam! 🤳🏼 Our social media feeds have changed quite a lot over the past 15 years. We’ve gone from Friends, to Followers, to For You. But this For You feed hardly seems to know what you actually like. ✋🥲 So what would your “Perfect Feed” look like? And how much control would you like over it as a user? Come join us in: 📆 9 May 📍 Arnhem at SWSWS69, Weerdjesstraat 69, 🕑 14.00 - 17.00 (4 spots left) 📆 15 May 📍 Amsterdam at The Hmm Studio, NDSM-Plein 125, 🕖 19.00 - 22.00 with optional dinner at 18.30 (9 spots left)

🥦 Besides music, online fandom is now a driving force for tv and literature too: https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/beyonce-taylor-swift-attention-fan-economy 🥦 A new book has amplified fierce debate around teens, mental health and smartphones https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/smartphones-youth-mental-health-jonathan-haidt-book-debate-rcna145928 🥦 Celebrity Deepfake Porn Cases Will Be Investigated by Meta Oversight Board https://www.wired.com/story/meta-oversight-board-deepfake-porn-facebook-instagram/ 🥦 Glycine girlies rise up: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/16/tiktok-glycine-meme-donghua-jinlong-china/ 🥦 Incels and sad girls: how memes have changed the way we categorise music: https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/62372/1/does-liking-fiona-apple-make-you-a-femcel-the-problem-with-music-memes 🥦 The Homepage Of The Black Internet: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/blackplanet-social-media-history/677839/ 🍉 Artists refuse to open Israel's Venice pavilion: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/16/artists-refuse-open-israel-pavilion-venice-biennale-ceasefire-gaza 🍉 The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/ 🍉 Forbidden Colors Generator by Noam Youngrak Son: https://www.d-act.org/forbiddencolors.html 🍉 eSim donations: https://gazaesims.com/

ℹ️ Locations, dates and times: The Hague 🗓 Thursday 2 May 2024 🕗 14.00 – 17.00 📍 DCR, De Constant Rebecqueplein 20b, 2518RA Den Haag Arnhem 🗓 Thursday 9 May 2024 🕗 14.00 – 17.00 📍 Shared Workspace Weerdjesstraat 69, Weerdjesstraat 69, 6811JE, Arnhem Amsterdam 🗓 Wednesday 15 May 2024 🕗 19.00 – 22.00 🍽 Optional dinner at 18.30 📍 The Hmm’s studio, NDSM-plein 125, 1033 WB, Amsterdam

Happy weekend everyone! 🦥💆 Soon after our event coming up next week (The Hmm @ De Blokhuispoort on April 25th) we’re moving on to another very exciting focus event: The Hmm ON The Perfect Feed! 📜🦶For all our fellow users of the Internet, we’ve developed a workshop in collaboration with Soyun Park and Leo Scarin of RGBdog studio, that will be available at three different locations. Through The Perfect Feed, we invite you to craft your ultimate social media timeline. 🤳🏼 What do you want to see in your feed? How much control would you like over it as a user? What would your “Perfect Feed” look like? This workshop will explore how the content in our feeds is organised from a moderation perspective, as well as the workings of the (graphic) user interfaces we use to access and interact with our feeds. 🎟 Tickets: €25 regular / €15 discount tickets for students, artists and other self-employed individuals. Feel free to reach out to us at info@thehmm.nl for some solidarity tickets we have available.

💬 Land Ho: The tradwife is pioneer burlesque: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/land-ho-del-valle 💬 Het effect van technologie op de arbeidsmarkt heeft meer met keuzes te maken dan met technologie: https://decorrespondent.nl/15211/raken-we-door-kunstmatige-intelligentie-allemaal-onze-baan-kwijt/0d36ce5a-d9af-09b8-1a31-7b66119fae57?pk_campaign=weekly&mc_cid=d6b2253136 💬 Gmail is 20 years old: https://www.theverge.com/24113616/gmail-email-20-years-old-internet 💬 Amazon's checkout-less grocery stores as the "AI" and surveillance driven model doesn't really work: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116 💬 Blogging platform Substack as an escape from algorithm driven fashion shopping: https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/consumers/to-escape-the-algorithm-fashion-girls-are-shopping-via-substack 💬 What to Know About Meta’s ‘Political Content’ Limit—and How to Turn It Off on Instagram https://time.com/6960587/meta-instagram-political-content-limit-off-setting-default/ 💬 Why Online Consumption Communities Brutalize: https://academic.oup.com/jcr/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jcr/ucae022/7639391?redirectedFrom=fulltext 💬 The case for the dislike button: https://www.ft.com/content/ff262755-0117-4860-a155-f610874727b4 💬 Our tools shape our selves: https://aeon.co/essays/bernard-stieglers-philosophy-on-how-technology-shapes-our-world 💬 Can we get kids off smartphones? https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/can-we-get-kids-off-smartphones 💬 Why Does Posting On Instagram Evoke Existential Dread?: https://www.bylinebyline.com/articles/social-posting-existential-dread

Goodmorning Hmm friends, happy weekend! 💆🌞 Thursday nights event was a blast. 🧨 If you missed it and want to watch it back, just head over to our livestream archive! In less than 3 weeks we’ve already got a new exciting event coming up: The Hmm will travel north this time for The Hmm @ De Blokhuispoort in Leeuwarden. 🚂💨 This evening we’ll explore what happens in different corners of the Internet, and how some users in and around the Friesland region approach the web. Tickets are available now! 🌟 🗓 Thursday 25 April 2024 📍 dbieb at Blokhuispoort, Blokhuisplein 40, 8911LJ Leeuwarden 🕗 20.00 CEST 🎟 on-site €8,- / on-site student discount €5,- / online livestream €5

🚩 A deep dive on the developments of MrBeast: https://www.polygon.com/24093399/end-of-mrbeast-youtube-era 🚩 How a photoshopped image of Kate Middleton undermines trust in photography: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3KigWXbGFj6k4Rp6g5NA90?si=ccc1183044874e01 🚩 Why Is the Slack Hold Music So Haunted and So Good?: https://www.wired.com/story/slack-huddle-hold-music-secret-history/ 🚩 What’s after Post-Internet Art? https://spikeartmagazine.com/articles/essay-whats-after-post-internet-art 🚩 TikTok Is So 2004: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-milennials-2000s-aging/ 🚩 Tradwives are levelling up: https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/62099/1/trad-wives-are-lvling-up-nara-smith 🚩 Can Reddit survive its own IPO?: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-reddit-protest-ipo/ 🚩End the Phone-Based Childhood Now: https://archive.md/ZBCJl 🚩The Physiology of Brain Rot: https://fatherlessangel.substack.com/p/the-physiology-of-brain-rot?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2