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Bringing this gem back. In light of Twitter's rate limiting, "infinite content" re: luxury media, and experiments here at Folklore with "public radio" and community-crafted feeds, a discussion of time in our digital spaces feels necessary. Aaron argues that we're transitioning from a world of linear narratives and time lines to a "garden of forking memes" that we’re free to explore and tend to. The gardening games with the richest soil, the deepest roots, and the most interesting characters will attract the most people. Aside from surface-level features like “dark mode,” digital temporality is blind to the natural cycles that shaped us and continue to sustain us. via Folklore Published on July 03, 2023 at 02:35PM Link: https://ift.tt/JG8BhFt Curator: 0x70eCe45cDc64A768f936Ccb8aC851578251363e3 (0x70eCe45cDc64A768f936Ccb8aC851578251363e3)

Inside all of us is a desire to feel like we belong (shallow context + broad understanding), but we also have a desire to be understood (deep context + niche). What matters to each person: whether they want to belong or be understood, differs.To me, belonging and understanding is a venn diagram. They are both premised on the desire to connect without discussion. However:Belonging is a group desire for a less uncertain future. It’s forward looking and about one’s affiliation to a group and the ease and comfort it brings when we share similarities.Understanding is an individual desire to have one’s past be known. It’s backwards looking and it’s about sharing a past with specific people. It’s about feelings and lived experiences and the inability for language to convey them. via Folklore Published on July 01, 2023 at 03:14PM Link: https://ift.tt/CvtSw6q Curator: 0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD (0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD)

THE MYTH OF OBJECTIVITY: On why nothing's really objective — and why it doesn't really matter in the first place. What we see is determined by what we know, and that context is powerful when used for good. More: https://ift.tt/tJfmjTx via Folklore Published on June 30, 2023 at 05:12PM Link: https://ift.tt/RWCGbXc Curator: 0xFdD0EC9A0C36834FCa1B9bAd13F811c58574fB4b (0xFdD0EC9A0C36834FCa1B9bAd13F811c58574fB4b)

LUXURY MEDIA: A framework for the economic sustainability of internet-native media. It's a return to patronage – we are not paying for utility, but rather are funding the story, the taste, the culture, and its proliferation. via Folklore Published on June 29, 2023 at 05:47PM Link: https://broadcast.mirror.xyz/wi3V5CmA4JW3S1u1Ta9pzA9PO0dIyjtH0DrVA3_RfFc Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

ONLINE COMMUNITY: Last month, I (rafa) published a core piece of my personal thesis: community is a form of media. It was part of a collection of articles that we gathered together in a digital Zine for Foster. Here we have a second article from the Zine. “For my 11-year-old daughter, Roblox isn’t a game. It’s a meeting place; it’s where she plays with her friend who I forced her to leave behind when we moved country. It’s not stupid or useless, but one of the many places where she meets others to create. Because she’s a creator, the natural, human type. And so are you. While we adults hype the word ‘community’, looking for this elusive group of people with whom we can hang out and who get us, kids are actively participating in communities every day.” https://blog.foster.co/there-is-nothing-new-under-the-sun/

ZOOMER ILLS “One last aspect of our collective arrested development must now be discussed: that its causes are, in part, physiological. Zoomers are the most chronically ill generation in modern history, and this despite the generational declines in smoking, drug use, precocious sex, and even fast food. Sleep deprivation and stress can explain some, but not all, of our mental and physical distress.” https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/05/the-zoomer-question/

SYSTEM INTERVENTIONS How do you intervene in a system? Yes, we can change goals, but we could also change the narrative. https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/

User and Gamer Rights https://www.raphkoster.com/games/essays/declaring-the-rights-of-players/

Crowds and Technology A prescient view from 2015 about how the social forms we inhabit are shifting as a result of a networked world. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/09/15/crowds-and-technology/#more-5606

Curatorial Governance “In an age of media overabundance, how we filter information and media is incredibly important for how we actively construct our worldview, as well as for how our worldview is built for us passively. Both the active and passive construction of our worldviews affect how we relate to each other as humans.” https://mirror.xyz/0xb8B251e3d23d1BEb45331c430eE12eF6fDca19dd/UuUNoucCfvrGCJFK56Gg296IW8LxJgad5AVCbuC8GzI

THE USB An oral history to understand how the USB came to be and the questions that came up in setting a completely new standard. h/t David Lang at Summer of Protocols https://www.fastcompany.com/3060705/an-oral-history-of-the-usb

Knowledge Farming First we had moderation farms, now we have AI data farming. A strange future we are walking towards steadily. https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots

Dear all paid members: I will be recruiting up to 3 curators who will have posting privileges on this feed for Season Two. If you are interested, please send me a DM. The application will be simple: 1. Share a document with 5 articles that you would curate 2. Provide a short description of your curation philosophy and evaluation criteria. 3. Must be a full member in Season One. Curators selected will be powerful, as their article choices will be entrusted to “Ark” as our collective mind. FAQ: - is there a deadline? no, this will be a continuous process. - what is the time commitment? adhoc posting, at most once a day, at minimum once per week. If you are new here, you can find all the necessary information at: folklore.institute https://linktr.ee/folklore0x Slide Form: https://tome.app/folklore-a8f/welcome-to-folklore-clj1tqjq12ri2pr3bb0yklg3d

VIBE PHILOSOPHY “a vibe diet is a way to form a vibe teche that will afford sophistication with vibe consciousness. There are no epistemic authorities on vibe consciousness. There are no technical authorities either. Those of us shifting the vibe are in the wild west of the noosphere, co-discovering the frontiers together. Experimentation is needed.” https://lessfoolish.substack.com/p/meme-to-vibe-a-philosophical-report

“you can just do stuff” A meditation on agency by Alice Maz https://alicemaz.substack.com/p/you-can-just-do-stuff

“Controlled Spontaneity” How the UK Government mobilises and shapes public response when encountering terrorist attacks. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mind-control-secret-british-government-blueprints-shaping-post-terror-planning

Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction “If, however, one avoids the linear, progressive, Time's- (killing)-arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic, and redefines technology and science as primarily cultural carrier bag rather than weapon of domination, one pleasant side effect is that science fiction can be seen as a far less rigid, narrow field, not necessarily Promethean or apocalyptic at all, and in fact less a mythological genre than a realistic one. It is a strange realism, but it is a strange reality.” https://archive.is/2021.03.19-031406/https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the-carrier-bag-theory-of-fiction (PS this message is a test)

DEATH AS CONTINUITY “The former, Sasha, describes a space-time continuum where people, places, ideas and things remain alive in human memory, while the latter, Zamani, describes the limitless dimension into which everything is ultimately subsumed when no longer remembered by the living. Collective memories are never to be overwritten. They are forever fading from the Sasha into the Zamani until they are remembered again by anyone living. In contrast to Western capitalist doctrines of linear temporality that habitually prioritize future-facing progress at the expense of erasing the past, this ideology offers a non-linear perception of time where the past is an infinitely capacious realm that we are approaching rather than moving away from.” https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/from-the-sasha-into-the-zamani-death-as-a-moment-of-radical-continuity/

WorldCrafting "...we need new articulations of how decentralised online communities interact with the public, and attached conceptions of the public good, one that as they put forward, should to be framed around positive externalities rather than internal interests. Therefore we believe there is a risk for communities embracing isolating metaphors such as the Dark Forest. Such an embrace could lead to these communities developing similarly to the historical precedent of merchant guilds: rent-seeking online tribes that optimize for internal value creation but with little to no concept of responsibility to the outside or a similar notion of other publics." https://movingcastles.world/modular-and-portable-multiplayer-miniverses