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(Sorry folks, parental leave so will be offline for a few weeks)

Hi everyone, Please note that we have launched a dedicated channel on Farcaster, a protocol for social media built on Ethereum. I’ve been part of the community for some time now (over a year?), but it finally has all the functionality we need for Folklore. This channel will remain a broadcasting channel, and Farcaster will become more of a watercooler with additional Folklorish conversations in a semi-public space. I’d encourage you to join, we have also setup a token-gated group chat for members with the Season 2 pass. Stay tuned, commissions hopefully incoming in the next few months. https://warpcast.com/~/channel/folklore

MEDIA PROTECTION: “…governments exist (in part) to regulate corporations, in order to stop them from doing things that are deleterious or destructive to the public good and to individuals who work for them. They have the means and motive to step in, whether declaring certain kinds of waste dumping to be illegal, trying to prevent private companies from bribing or otherwise influencing public officials, or mandating that TV networks cannot blast the volume of ads to make them audible to viewers who leave the room during commercial breaks. (Yes, that last thing is real; it’s legislation known as the CALM Act.) They should do something similar for all types of media.” via Folklore Published on February 11, 2024 at 08:49PM Link: https://ift.tt/r7a9LqV Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

SO EARLY, DID WE EVEN BE? “Certain brands give their audiences STATUS: "others see me associated with the brand and are forced to bow down". Others provide UTILITY, which includes financial gain: "this brand serves a purpose to me". Yet others are a closed loop: "this brand provides me with ENTERTAINMENT, and that's that," so what other people think doesn't register too much. But more and more, a (PARA)SOCIAL offering is at play: "this brand brings me together with others, either in theory or in practice. become part of my brand, and you will have friends". via Folklore Published on February 06, 2024 at 12:45PM Link: https://ift.tt/PKNua1Z Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

THE ENSHITTIFICATION CURE: “So what's enshittification and why did it catch fire? It's my theory explaining how the internet was colonized by platforms, and why all those platforms are degrading so quickly and thoroughly, and why it matters – and what we can do about it. We're all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit…There are four constraints that prevent enshittification: competition, regulation, self-help and labor. To reverse enshittification and guard against its reemergence, we must restore and strengthen each of these…Software doesn't eat the world, it enshittifies it” via Folklore Published on February 03, 2024 at 04:24PM Link: https://ift.tt/Tr1h50b Curator: 0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD (0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD)

PERPETUAL BEREAVEMENT: “ It is a wholly human desire to bring our companions back, to keep them with us, to honor them. Our machines have extended this impulse by affording us continuous ways of producing digital data and seemingly endless storage capabilities. But, in an even more fundamental way, our machines facilitate digital instantiations of ourselves, ultimately capturing our digital selves within their silicon, mineral and metal frameworks. We become projected-beings, anesthetized by the immaterial space of the internet as François J. Bonnet describes us in After Death, (3) defined solely by the digital (non-)space around us. In other words, we are 'entombed' by machines, as Cade Diehm of the New Design Congress puts it (4), and also by capital.” via Folklore Published on February 03, 2024 at 01:02PM Link: https://ift.tt/yzCGP6K Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

Team: I have reopened memberships for a bit given that I’ve gotten some requests recently. You can mint the ongoing membership here: https://zora.co/collect/oeth:0x2451761fed91d394ad6ba01215f8b46abe70fc96

THE HUMAN MEDIUM IS THE HUMAN MESSAGE: “In the future, if we can split media as predominantly human-made or predominantly AI-made, then human-made media will tilt towards being able to point to the humans that made it. In other words, in a divergence like this, the human/s will merge closer with their creations.” via Folklore Published on January 28, 2024 at 05:03PM Link: https://ift.tt/mMAYz3q Curator: 0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD (0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD)

OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH: “I’ve often heard people say, ’I wonder what it would be like to be on board a spaceship,’ and the answer is very simple. What does it feel like? That’s all we have ever experienced. We are all astronauts. I know you are paying attention, but I’m sure you don’t immediately agree and say, ‘Yes, that’s right, I am an astronaut.’ I’m sure that you don’t really sense yourself to be aboard a fantastically real spaceship our spherical Spaceship Earth.” via Folklore Published on January 27, 2024 at 11:41PM Link: https://ift.tt/lpSC7ay Curator: 0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD (0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD)

NOCLIP GLITCH: “ The glitch is a revelatory moment that breaks the illusion of control implied in the user-machine relationship. The glitch cracks the smoothness of the user condition - to borrow an expression from Silvio Lorusso - and brings us closer to the multi-layered truths scaffolded into a device. Once the controlled simulation starts to glitch, alternative threads of worldbuilding unfold showing eerie and incomplete environments where the players wander freely.” via Folklore Published on January 27, 2024 at 10:11PM Link: https://ift.tt/ZGbwrNH Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

LUXURIOUS MODESTY: "The average street performer needs to choose their location wisely to maximize exposure, and the average worker needs to call attention to the work they do. On the other hand, a world-famous celebrity like Beyoncé or Taylor Swift can do very little to promote themselves and still be showered with attention. One way of thinking about this is that not everyone has the same radius. Some individuals have a radius so big, virtually anything that they do will be noticed on a large scale. These individuals don't need a push-based system, because everybody's pulling. They can afford to be modest." via Folklore Published on January 26, 2024 at 09:00AM Link: https://ift.tt/1bRYhFX Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

ACADEMIC UNHAPPINESS: "The more insane someone’s expectations about their own performance, the more they push themselves. The ones who overachieve the most are those who devise the most effective ways to manipulate their own psychology into jumping through ever more inane hoops, no matter the test that’s put in front of them. His follow-on point is that these people are all deeply unhappy. Thus: at scale, on the societal level, selecting for academic performance also selects for unhappiness." via Folklore Published on January 26, 2024 at 08:57AM Link: https://ift.tt/2SGfWCk Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

CONSPIRACY: "In other words: crypto sees the trust problem the internet created, has noticed that most of our institutions rely on trust networks which can no longer be assumed, and decided the way out was to build new, trustless systems. But after a decade, I think we should confront ourselves to the idea that trustlessness implies ineffectiveness, and we should perhaps try to go the other way and build tools and technologies which help establish trust, instead. Crypto should move away from building tools for activism, and towards building tools for conspiracy." via Folklore Published on January 26, 2024 at 08:56AM Link: https://ift.tt/AuGcSj9 Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

CENTAUR ART: This process of an artist locating something that already exists in the latent potential of an AI model, and minting it as an artwork, reminded us of the history of Duchamp’s readymades. As such we choose to describe these embedding artworks as readyweights. via Folklore Published on January 21, 2024 at 05:22PM Link: https://hd.mirror.xyz/n4Mddar_V1jTpAAxKlwKEzG4iQl-HIW7RN6LBNRDNgM Curator: 0x144c4E5027B69f7798B2B162D924BcAE5c149f15 (0x144c4E5027B69f7798B2B162D924BcAE5c149f15)

THIS MACHINE KILLS COPYRIGHT: “How can we find ways to harness the superpowers of the blockchain – decentralization, immutability and provenance – without harming creators who still rely on copyright to earn money? How can we protect creators’ rights while also embracing the truth that everything is a remix, that genius is a fallacy, and that collective attribution of the folk is a much healthier way to share and celebrate art? As we wrestle with legacy concepts of ownership – as well as a memetic Internet culture that is increasingly at odds with them – and the legal murk web3, we have an opportunity to create new precedence through action – to embrace solutions that redistribute wealth from one folk to many.” via Folklore Published on January 20, 2024 at 05:17PM Link: https://ift.tt/og24avy Curator: 0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD (0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD)

CRYPTO’S THREE BODY PROBLEM: Wake up bae, new Other Internet essay has dropped. “Crypto's animating purpose was to develop incorruptible institutions. However, various attempts to embed these structures in a broader social fabric, from DAOs to crypto-network states, have largely failed. We draw from Lawrence Lessig's legal theories to explain why. Protocol designers work with markets and code but frequently ignore the vital institutional functions served by social norms and the law itself. The absence of these regulatory functions considerably limits the forms of pro-social behavior that can be fostered or enforced.” In addition, Folklore members are invited to discuss the essay with the Summer of Protocols researchers at https://ift.tt/igf7qVc via Folklore Published on January 16, 2024 at 05:54PM Link: https://ift.tt/lT9tywj Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)

LITERACY AS DEVIANCE: “Writing is not the extension of the eye. It is not the extension of the ear. Nor of the hand, or the skin, or of any other organ of sensory perception and experience. Writing is through and through an extension of another part of us altogether- of the abstracted, conceptual, digital, deductive mind . What the alphabet did was separate thought from sensation, knowledge from experience, utterance from context, speech from speaker, and truth from presence, space, and time. Along with the idea of zero and place notation in numbering systems—themselves dependent on forms of writing for their elaboration—alphabetic reading and writing constructed a new meaning of thought and knowledge, a new epistemology, so different from the epistemology of the senses and of sense-based speech that we have only just begun to penetrate how it works. If I seem to belabor the point, it is because our habits of thinking and talking about writing have suffered so monumentally from misdirected analogy. - Nystrom, C. (1987) via Folklore Published on January 15, 2024 at 03:31PM Link: https://ift.tt/BoJWMzu Curator: 0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD (0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD)

MINISTRY OF DIGITAL AFFAIRS: How can web3 technology can be used to build decentralized civic infrastructures? Facing many crises we are having in the world, this series of 3 articles rethinks how we organize society and economy in ways that the future could be more plural, resilient, and sustainable. Article 1: Towards Decentralised Civic Infrastructure; Article 2: Evolving a new public with web3; Article 3: Three pathways towards decentralized civics via Folklore Published on January 14, 2024 at 06:20AM Link: https://ift.tt/tjiWBM7 Curator: 0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD (0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD)

A CALL FOR FRICTION DESIGN: “Instead of following design ethics that strive to eliminate friction we suggest to not only allow, but embrace friction, facilitate it: design [products with] digital technology in a way that makes space for our humanness. Here friction is a core ingredient. Digital technology should create environments and situations in which we can truly connect with each other, as well as with the unknown, the uncontrolled, with all senses, all elements, all emotions. Create situations that are not calculated beforehand, predicted and measured; situations that result from and amount to the present moment.” via Folklore Published on January 13, 2024 at 06:48PM Link: https://ift.tt/EKZPzhq Curator: 0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD (0x1b4a302D15412655877d86ae82823D8F6d085ddD)

SILENT COMMONS: " Just as the commons of space are vulnerable, and can be destroyed by the motorization of traffic, so the commons of speech are vulnerable, and can easily be destroyed by the encroachment of modem means of communication. The issue which I propose for discussion should therefore be clear: how to counter the encroachment of new, electronic devices and systems upon commons that are more subtle and more intimate to our being than either grassland or roads - commons that are at least as valuable as silence. Silence, according to western and eastern tradition alike, is necessary for the emergence of persons. It is taken from us by machines that ape people. We could easily be made increasingly dependent on machines for speaking and for thinking, as we are already dependent on machines for moving." via Folklore Published on January 12, 2024 at 10:29AM Link: https://ift.tt/kyUSW5D Curator: 0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E (0xe62d071Ea99A63798Fec7222c483c53e87F2A32E)