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DIGITAL CONTAGION: “ We report the first outbreak of a new type of mass sociogenic illness that in contrast to all previously reported episodes is spread solely via social media. Accordingly, we suggest the more specific term ‘mass social media-induced illness’.” via Folklore Published on October 14, 2023 at 08:56AM Link: https://ift.tt/UXQ23ki Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

New from Folklore's Community ::: OBJECT HISTORIES ::: "What conversation would you want to have with every person who will one day be in the exact same location as you? What puzzles or riddles would you gift them?" via Folklore Published on October 12, 2023 at 04:57PM Link: https://folklore.mirror.xyz/mXUdGyFMkotAOEJvJY4ecwMUi3ze-uZ_3s8IQ3UpD3g Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

CENTAURS AND CYBORGS: "Centaur work has a clear line between person and machine, like the clear line between the human torso and horse body of the mythical centaur. Centaurs have a strategic division of labor, switching between AI and human tasks, allocating responsibilities based on the strengths and capabilities of each entity... On the other hand, Cyborgs blend machine and person, integrating the two deeply. Cyborgs don't just delegate tasks; they intertwine their efforts with AI, moving back and forth over the jagged frontier. Bits of tasks get handed to the AI, such as initiating a sentence for the AI to complete, so that Cyborgs find themselves working in tandem with the AI." via Folklore Published on October 11, 2023 at 12:41PM Link: https://ift.tt/PBzDmcX Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

THE HOURGLASS PINCH: "A new computer model that describes the evolution of the Internet's architecture suggests something similar has happened among the layers of protocols that have survived -- and become extinct -- on the worldwide network." via Folklore Published on October 10, 2023 at 11:10AM Link: https://ift.tt/LU21OqM Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

LIQUID MODERNITY: “What all these features of fluids amount to, in simple language, is that liquids, unlike solids, cannot easily hold their shape. Fluids, so to speak, neither fix space nor bind time. While solids have clear spatial dimensions but neutralize the impact, and thus downgrade the significance, of time (effectively resist its flow or render it irrelevant), fluids do not keep to any shape for long and are constantly ready (and prone) to change it ; and so for them it is the flow of time that counts, more than the space they happen to occupy: that space, after all, they fill but 'for a moment'. (LC 311)” via Folklore Published on October 08, 2023 at 08:08PM Link: https://ift.tt/HCjvANw Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF SOLARPUNK/BLOCKCHAINS: In this talk, Paul Graham Raven contextualizes solarpunk futures and the promises of blockchains within the frame of utopias and challenges the enthusiasts to come to terms with (or at minimum acknowledge) the invisible infrastructures that underpin every optimistic utterance and hope-inducing extrapolation. via Folklore Published on October 07, 2023 at 03:08PM Link: https://youtu.be/imZu4sY0kr0?si=fsKkXuW1E4JVCyp2 Curator: 0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD (0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD)

CULTURAL RADIATION: "A cultural product with a "high half-life" would be one that endures over a considerable period, retaining its influence, recognizability, or relevance. Such long-lasting impact could be attributed to various factors, such as deep aesthetic resonance, legibility, or the establishment of a dedicated community that continues to engage with it." via Folklore Published on October 05, 2023 at 12:00PM Link: https://ift.tt/dnwUH7u Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

OOZE OOZE OOZE: "Ironically, fear of oozification, and the temptation to respond in these ways, is strongest in those who most evangelize progress, innovation, change, and endless economic growth... No, the paradox has to do with the fundamental nature of change: change carried far enough necessarily changes the changer. There is no such thing as “sustainable progress” because any pattern of sustained change will eventually oozify the defining certainties of the identities that thought it was a good idea in the first place, and pursued it." via Folklore Published on October 03, 2023 at 10:19AM Link: https://ift.tt/pUciR79 Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

DIGITAL THEATRE OF THE MIND: "Computers as Theatre" serves as a seminal text for understanding the psychological and emotional dimensions of UX design. It argues that by adopting a theatrical approach, designers can tap into the innate human desire for narrative and emotional engagement, elevating UX design from mere functionality to an art form. via Folklore Published on October 02, 2023 at 03:14PM Link: https://ift.tt/qJGNgQ9 Curator: 0x144c4E5027B69f7798B2B162D924BcAE5c149f15 (0x144c4E5027B69f7798B2B162D924BcAE5c149f15)

A EULOGY FOR CHECKPOINTS: An emergent digital behavior, one that originated in the comment section of a YouTube video, the story of Checkpoints reminds us to be fully aware of the infrastructure we use in community building in digital realms. Are the structures sturdy? Who controls them? Who is responsible for archiving or providing additional fault tolerance in the community’s memory system? via Folklore Published on September 30, 2023 at 02:31PM Link: https://ift.tt/eqiKkxN Curator: 0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD (0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD)

WORLD AUTONOMY: "Worlds with a blockchain substrate are maximally autonomous: anybody can enforce the introduction rule, without damaging its objectivity. The disappearance or betrayal of any particular individual does not hurt the world: its diegetic boundary remains as hard as ever. Such worlds can be nearly on par with systems like the English language, or physics itself. Of course, autonomy is something you can only measure in retrospect. Before an actual existential threat faces the world, autonomy is often performative. Sometimes, a credible path towards autonomy is what allows worlds to be seen as autonomous." via Folklore Published on September 28, 2023 at 09:07AM Link: https://ift.tt/f8EBFiv Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

STYLE GUIDE: Zora Zine's Open-Source Style Guide. Great insight into writing online, and an excellent resource to think about style with all the neologisms that we're engulfed in. via Folklore Published on September 26, 2023 at 11:01AM Link: https://ift.tt/SNfXl1M Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

INTERWEAVING COMMUNITIES: By emphasizing bottom-up supersidiarity, adaptability, and interconnectedness, coordi-nations allow for the creation of new layers of sovereignties that operate independently of existing nation states, yet nonetheless maintain an interface and symbiotic relationship with the existing state system. via Folklore Published on September 25, 2023 at 04:29AM Link: https://ift.tt/OcejQ1n Curator: 0x144c4E5027B69f7798B2B162D924BcAE5c149f15 (0x144c4E5027B69f7798B2B162D924BcAE5c149f15)

ARCHIVE OF PUNK TECHNOLOGIES: Punk technologies are those that have been deliberately designed as a mode of resistance against the mainstream. It serves the same role in technology as punk rock did in music: social resistance and subterfuge against the imposition and oppression of mainstream systems that dictate a particular set of values or ways of living and being. via Folklore Published on September 23, 2023 at 09:02PM Link: https://ift.tt/nazRduT Curator: 0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD (0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD)

TRIBE ERA: “ As influencers became brands themselves they were able to launch white-labeled products top-down - dumping merch on their followers. As explained above, the brands’ way into cultural relevance was via influencer partnerships and memes. But what if we could own the memes collectively? Enter the era of tribesmen.” via Folklore Published on September 23, 2023 at 10:16AM Link: https://ift.tt/AsP8JWT Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

INTER-ACTION: “ Another potential pleasure offered by interactivity is that of 'control' -- control being on a dangerously sliding scale which could also result in displeasure for an audience. 'Control', like 'choice' depends on degree -- is the artist giving a token degree of control which is ultimately frustrating, or giving the audience full control, in which case what is the artist there for?” via Folklore Published on September 21, 2023 at 10:21AM Link: https://ift.tt/NWUGA52 Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

HERE'S A WILD THOUGHT: don't just offer data protection, especially when you can't guarantee it.Offer data destruction. Not BrinWorld, where everyone knows everything and lions lie downwith lambs; a more hard-edged place where, when the lions come calling, we burn down ourchunk of the veldt rather than hand it over. Forget the Transparent Society. Let's call this the Scorched-Earth society. via Folklore Published on September 18, 2023 at 03:29AM Link: https://ift.tt/ku83XMH Curator: 0x144c4E5027B69f7798B2B162D924BcAE5c149f15 (0x144c4E5027B69f7798B2B162D924BcAE5c149f15)

COMPRESSION PROGRESS: A simple principle explains essential aspects of subjective beauty, novelty, surprise, interestingness, attention, curiosity, creativity, art, science, music, jokes. This David Perell essay serves as a bit of a compressed appetizer, but the seminal 2008 Cornell paper is linked out for those who want the whole meal. via Folklore Published on September 16, 2023 at 03:13PM Link: https://ift.tt/w7zIgqR Curator: 0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD (0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD)

FORK IT: “ Moloch DAO always leaves a door open. Every time there is a vote, one can decide to exit (“ragequit”), turning non-transferable voting shares into transferable “loot tokens”. If you destroy your loot tokens, you can exit with your proportional amount of the organization’s resources (“treasury”).” via Folklore Published on September 15, 2023 at 09:59AM Link: https://ift.tt/46A9awr Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

BONDED: “Tokens are algorithmically minted and then used to deposit it against participants in the community that curate and foster the shared goals of the community. These participants can then use their standing (proportional backing) in the community to curate any information in this community. Anyone, at any point in time can become a curator. It is dynamic. The deposits can be shifted around to other curators as desired.” via Folklore Published on September 14, 2023 at 03:02PM Link: https://ift.tt/7fI5Etq Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)