"Focusing on the prospect of human extinction by AI in the distant future may prevent us from addressing AI’s disruptive dangers to society today."

"I entirely agree. But as I pointed out in my response, Molyneux’s concerns don’t give us a reason to oppose socialism. They give us a powerful reason to support it."

"Digital connectivity’s democratizing impact on the production, circulation and consumption of culture has been greatly exaggerated."

"The psychosomatic fallout was dire: heart disease, sleep disruptions, increased risk of Alzheimer’s. The friendship recession has had potentially lethal effects."

"The app’s original purpose has been lost in the era of “performance” media."

"For two decades the work of Paul Pfeiffer (b. 1966, US; lives in New York) has developed in response to the changing technology of video. His recent show at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, exemplified his absorption of different traditions _...Read More_

"In following Ximei’s day-to-day routines, the film captures the gruelling reality of simply making your voice heard in an environment that is determined to strip HIV-positive people of their humanity. The lively thread that binds this _...Read More_

"People just can’t stop tweeting about all the tweets they see."

"This week’s newsletter is a little unusual. It only has one section, which is devoted to sketching out some possible contours of a left tech policy. In what follows, I take the basic principles of decommodification and democratization and _...Read More_

"Twitter’s mobs mimic bird murmurations."

"A few years ago, I ruined my Spotify algorithm for good. Under a deadline and ready to try anything that might give my harder-working self an edge over my everyday, avoidant one, I started dabbling in _...Read More_

"I adore trash, cheap plastic objects, cracktros, single-purpose workarounds, fakes, forgeries, bump keys, and slim-jims. (1) Things either made as interference themselves or the symptoms of an imperfect world. Evidence of chaos and our _...Read More_

Memes are incredibly powerful.

>"For the October edition of Spike x Liste Expedition Monthly Picks, Arnon Ben-Dror, an art critic and curator based in Tel Aviv, traces the de-solidification of contemporary sculpture in Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg’s recent sculpture."

"Human beings are like a social network."