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SACRED ECOLOGY: Sonics is the optics of the 21st century. Like the microscope, sonic technologies function like a scientific prosthetic — as it extends our sense of hearing, it expands our perceptual and conceptual horizons. We are encountering new soundscapes throughout the cosmos and across the Tree of Life, learning about the universality of acoustic meaning-making and the primordial sensitivity of living organisms to sound. Sonics decenters humanity within the Tree of Life, while connecting us more closely to the cosmos. via Folklore Published on December 09, 2023 at 04:50PM Link: https://ift.tt/Am7z692 Curator: 0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD (0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD)

BED ROTTER: "We thought the Internet was a decisive break with last century’s passive broadcast culture. Online culture was supposed to be active and participatory—but the image of the teenager has changed less in the last thirty years than we would like to think. The couch potatoes of 1993 have become the bed rotters of 2023. Both spend the evening scrambling their circadian rhythm with blue light. The only differences being the size of the screen, and whether Comcast or TikTok is curating your content for the night." via Folklore Published on December 07, 2023 at 12:26PM Link: https://ift.tt/bw1eXxH Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

MALLEABLE SOFTWARE: "LLMs will represent a step change in tool support for end-user programming: the ability of normal people to fully harness the general power of computers without resorting to the complexity of normal programming. Until now, that vision has been bottlenecked on turning fuzzy informal intent into formal, executable code; now that bottleneck is rapidly opening up thanks to LLMs." via Folklore Published on December 07, 2023 at 12:20PM Link: https://ift.tt/A1ZWOGF Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

THE SLOW BLADE PENETRATES THE SHIELD: "It often feels like Are.na itself has its own needs and desires—that Are.na has its own personal intuition. And that we (you and I) are figuring out what it wants to be together. We (the organization that works on Are.na) have a very defined sense of how things should be done and why building Are.na is important, but we try not to be overly dogmatic about what exactly it should evolve into. Instead we try to listen to how we all talk about Are.na, pay attention to how changes to the platform bring about new needs and ideas, and recognize the times when we (you and I) have strong urges to do something on Are.na, but can’t. These are the times when we know how to make Are.na more complete." via Folklore Published on December 03, 2023 at 07:37PM Link: https://ift.tt/FSMydLV Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

HOW TO COOK CREATIVITY: The collaboration cookbook is a living resource that includes recipes for real creative projects. Each recipe is an instruction for an activity, initiative, or experiment that is the products of people working together in creative partnership. via Folklore Published on December 03, 2023 at 01:03PM Link: https://ift.tt/2VaBetS Curator: 0x144c4E5027B69f7798B2B162D924BcAE5c149f15 (0x144c4E5027B69f7798B2B162D924BcAE5c149f15)

RITUAL TECHNOLOGY: “We need ritual technology. Technology designed for ritual use. Why? Most of the software we use daily is designed to engagement-max. Social media feeds, loot boxes, compulsion loops, gang gang yes yes yes ice cream so good. You’re caught in a feedback loop with the algorithm, and you are the squishiest part of that loop. Ritual technology operates on a different timescale. Underneath the fast twitch of compulsion loops is the slow thrum of ritual. Elder feedback systems. An antidote to algorithmic engagement addiction? via Folklore Published on December 02, 2023 at 02:09PM Link: https://ift.tt/xgv4bzf Curator: 0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD (0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD)

A VOID: What do we feel when we lurk within the abandoned gathering spaces online? … the Discord server of that once burgeoning community, remembering those memes and the friends you made? There are echoes, and the empty spaces may remind us of other spaces: the abandoned mall, the empty offices waiting on remote workers, the ghosts at 3:30am at the “busy” intersection of our home town.” via Folklore Published on November 30, 2023 at 11:48AM Link: https://ift.tt/01NzMIR Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

THE LIBRARY: "This much is known: For every rational line or forthright statement there are leagues of senseless cacophony, verbal nonsense, and incoherency. (I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of the palm of one's hand .... They will acknowledge that the inventors of writing imitated the twenty-five natural symbols, but contend that that adoption was fortuitous, coincidental, and that books in themselves have no meaning. That argument, as we shall see, is not entirely fallacious.)" via Folklore Published on November 27, 2023 at 10:24AM Link: https://ift.tt/2Df0nbm Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

CONGRATS ARON: Please join me in congratulating @aronshelton in winning the latest Folklore Contest. The award of 0.11 ETH (~$225 USD) has been disbursed and here is the artwork that each of you can collect. Personally, I believe the combination of themes of the labyrinth with the fingerprint, as well as the hand and connections created a spooky X-Files vibe — exactly the type of “x-Ray” that Folklore is doing on digital culture. Hopefully @aronshelton will be kind enough to do a short guest post, sharing their experience at Folklore to date and their vision for an interconnected and human experience online. >>>>> IMPORTANT: We are looking for guest posts from Folklore readers, writers, and members to showcase their stories, ideas, art, and work (non-fiction and fiction welcome). Please send DM me (@rafathebuilder) a message to coordinate. via Folklore Published on November 26, 2023 at 09:36PM Link: https://titles.xyz/collect/zora/0xb7c1854274107becae1015c0c6d613365e3fe80d Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

PLANETARY SAPIENCE: “Planetary-scale computation is an example of what may be called, after the great Polish novelist Stanislaw Lem, an “epistemological technology.” The most important social impact of some technologies is not just in what they allow people to do, but in what they reveal about how the world works. This can lead to trouble. While anxiety about technology is expressed in accounts of its pernicious effects, that unease is sometimes rooted in what technology uncovers that was always there all along. Microscopes did not conjure microbes into being, but once we knew they were there, we could never see surfaces the same way again.”Benjamin Bratton⋱ Antikythera ⋱ Berggruen Institute ⋱ Federico Pérez Villoro + Christopher Hamamoto ⋱ rafa via Folklore Published on November 26, 2023 at 01:24AM Link: https://ift.tt/21fdCJo Curator: 0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD (0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD)

WRONG METAPHOR, LIMITED DESIGN: “ The desktop metaphor assumes we save training time by taking advantage of the time that users have already invested in learning to operate the traditional office with its paper documents and filing cabinets. But the next generation of users will make their learning investments with computers, and it is counterproductive to give them interfaces based on awkward imitations of obsolete technologies. Instead, we need to develop new interface paradigms based on the structure of computer systems and the tasks users really have to perform, rather than paradigms that enshrine outmoded technology. The way to advance the interface is not to develop ever-more-faithful imitations of the desktop, but instead to escape the limitations of the desktop especially as computers themselves become ubiquitous [21] and are used away from the desk.” via Folklore Published on November 25, 2023 at 08:37AM Link: https://ift.tt/dU81akR Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

IDENTITY AS PRACTICE OF SPECULATION: "With entrepreneurism increasingly tending toward immaterial labor and attention economies, design becomes key in strengthening figurative value. Visual identities are rarely accurate images of entities, but rather manipulations of how these entities want to be perceived by their presumed markets. Identity design is not a practice of representation, but of speculation—it is not about visualizing manifested identities but about codifying subjective predictions, and aspirations, in graphic form." via Folklore Published on November 23, 2023 at 01:03PM Link: https://ift.tt/M8VBTnh Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

Gentle reminder

LIVE, LAUGH, LURK: “ If you lurk IRL, people can see you lurking and people know when and by whom they are being seen–the context is almost entirely visible to all parties involved. Online, there is no such exchange, you can only see what I show you and if I use the right tools, you won’t even know I’m there.” via Folklore Published on November 22, 2023 at 11:06AM Link: https://ift.tt/Vp8FXQt Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

Dear All, 👏🏼Thank you for all your submissions to the Folklore NFT remix contest. We had 12 submissions, which you can view below. 🤔 Can I vote? All active members (midseason and season 2 holders) have 100 votes each. Those supporting the curation process have 300 votes each. 🏆 Winner will be sent 0.11 ETH for the best visual. Thank you again for supporting the fun. What’s next? we will be looking for guest blog posts (cyberfiction) and curation (sets of articles with a theme). Please DM me if you’re interested in either. 🗳️ Contest Link for Voting https://jokerace.xyz/contest/optimism/0x4a946A730fEDB1838612dE8e3B70B81C2739bd66

MODERATION MATH: “ While crowdsourced content moderation is not a new idea with various implementations deployed on other platforms (i.e. Wikipedia, Reddit), Community Notes uses a unique implementation that attempts to only surface notes if they are rated positively by users with diverse viewpoints (i.e. on the political spectrum).” via Folklore Published on November 20, 2023 at 02:36PM Link: https://ift.tt/nF20hAt Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

DRAMA EATS THE WORLD: “With each passing year, more and more facets of popular culture become something like wrestling: a stage-managed “reality” in which scripted stories bleed freely into real events, with the blurry line between truth and untruth seeming to heighten, not lessen, the audience’s addiction to the melodrama.” via Folklore Published on November 20, 2023 at 02:34PM Link: https://ift.tt/slAtQHy Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

A PROTOPIC CENTAUR FUTURE: The most recent report by RADAR co-instigated by one of Folklore’s very own, @keels223, “yields a blueprint for action that challenges the idea that we’re but passengers on someone else’s ride into the future. When you leave this report, that’s what you’ll have: our start at a protopian blueprint for a Centaur Future that is, indeed, a better future. And an invitation to continue the journey with us.” via Folklore Published on November 18, 2023 at 03:06PM Link: https://centaur.radardao.xyz/ Curator: 0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD (0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD)

MACHINE CREATIVITY: “When machine learning solves problems, it can come up with solutions that range from clever to downright uncanny. Biological evolution works this way, too - as any biologist will tell you, living organisms find the strangest solutions to problems, and the strangest energy sources to exploit. Sometimes I think the surest sign that we’re not living in a computer simulation is that if we were, some microbe would have learned to exploit its flaws.” via Folklore Published on November 17, 2023 at 09:22AM Link: https://ift.tt/H1rKlz8 Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

NOT JUST DISCOVERY, DIFFUSION: “ At DARPA we viewed innovation competition through the lens of evolving, complex adaptive ecosystems, examining the critical role of knowledge diffusion, feedback loops, and adaptations to accelerate learning, exploit opportunities, and spread innovations for competitive advantage. From this vantage point, a country’s diffusion capacitydetermines its competitiveness. Political scientist Jeffrey Ding has shown that diffusion capacity, even more than the ability to achieve breakthroughs, is essential for sustaining economic growth and productivity gains.” via Folklore Published on November 14, 2023 at 06:22AM Link: https://ift.tt/NQ9smJ4 Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)