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Writing after the homework apocalypse
Writing after the homework apocalypse
Need process learning more than outcome learning.
As a learning experience, Warner argues the value of writing “is intrinsic and external and has nothing to do with markets.” Like learning to apply numbers to problems as a way to understand and solve them, learning to craft words as a form of thinking has value far beyond simply being able to produce specific outputs. However, whether you’re a business analyst or a poet, markets matter when it comes to getting paid for your outputs.
It seems unlikely that generative AI will replace most forms of cultural labor. A better bet is that, like cultural technologies that came before, new forms of paid labor emerge out of the efforts to produce culture using new technology.
Modern cultural labor is a process of responding to and pushing against the values represented in existing culture, but it is also a process of adapting to structural and technological change.
The obsession with making our numbers go up, an obsession Substack and every other social media platform cultivate with every payment processed and every new feature added, is designed to get you back on that treadmill.
despite the long history of writers not getting paid much for their economic outputs, writing retains its value, even and especially in the age of AI. That value, as Warner says, is based in activities “where the experience itself is meaningful for both the writer and the audience for that writing.”
#generativeai#writing#blag#education
·ailog.blog·
Writing after the homework apocalypse
The Roganification of the Male Mystique
The Roganification of the Male Mystique
Joe Rogan changed. Not all at once. Not in some catastrophic fall from grace. But gradually — the way signals turn to noise when the frequency gets stuck. And now, millions of men are trying to survive a collapsing world by bulking up their biceps and shrinking their imaginations. I saw a YouTube comment last week from a user named @lenafelipe, highlighted on Threads by seyitaylor: This is the part I don’t understand about Rogan fans. The moment I picked up on how his interests became a clos
The Roganification of masculinity is what you get when capitalism, patriarchy, and algorithmic engagement collapse into a single, infinitely scrollable archetype: the self-actualized, carnivorous man who doesn’t need anyone. The man who sees vulnerability as weakness, complexity as threat, and solidarity as a trap.
#blag#masculinity#toxicmasculinity#joerogan
·joanwestenberg.com·
The Roganification of the Male Mystique
Enshittification as a matter of taste
Enshittification as a matter of taste
“Enshittification” is a termed coined by Cory Doctorow in 2023 to describe a pattern of decreasing quality observed in online services and products. Since Doctorow’s post, there’s been no shortage of think pieces on enshittification and its role in our society and to a large extent I agree with them all. I think it’s an inevitable problem that shows the splitting seams of Capitalism. If you will allow, I’d like to add a tangential thought – one slight embellishment – to this topic.
#blag#design#enshittification
·daverupert.com·
Enshittification as a matter of taste
'Pandemic Legacy' Has Destroyed My Life | Defector
'Pandemic Legacy' Has Destroyed My Life | Defector
This blog contains minor spoilers for base mechanics in Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, but nothing that isn’t in the core rules of the game. When I texted my roommate, “what if we became board game people…” I didn’t think it would come to this: two board games purchased to start and then, a week later, […]
#boardgames#pandemic
·defector.com·
'Pandemic Legacy' Has Destroyed My Life | Defector