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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
Oscar-Winning Pixar Animator Pete Docter On 30 Years of ‘Toy Story,’ the Future of AI in Animation and New Sequel (Exclusive)
Oscar-Winning Pixar Animator Pete Docter On 30 Years of ‘Toy Story,’ the Future of AI in Animation and New Sequel (Exclusive)
Working on it, it was just a bunch of us nerds. It felt like working in our garage. It was not really fancy and a small team, so it was very casual and loose," the legendary animator says.
AI takes something and sands the edges down, so it makes the blob average. And that could be very useful in a lot of ways. But if you really want to do something brand new and really insightful and speak from a personal angle, that’s not going to come from AI fully. It only ever create what’s been fed into it. It doesn’t create anything new, it creates a weird amalgam of stuff that’s been poured into it.
They’re kind of parents, these toys, they’re there to serve the kids and to help them grow up. And that’s difficult in a lot of ways as being a parent. My wife said, “From the moment they’re born, our job is to prepare them, to leave us to go be successful in the world.” And that’s really difficult.
I feel like that’s our job as human beings is to open our eyes and our hearts to the way other people see things without being preachy. Obviously we don’t want that in the movies. We don’t want it to feel like you’re going to school or getting a message. You’re there to have fun, you’re there to be entertained, but what better way, and this is the power of animation.
#pixar#interview#hollywoodreporter#animation#generativeai
·hollywoodreporter.com·
Oscar-Winning Pixar Animator Pete Docter On 30 Years of ‘Toy Story,’ the Future of AI in Animation and New Sequel (Exclusive)
What does Maga-land look like? Let me show you America's unbeautiful suburban sprawl | Alexander Hurst
What does Maga-land look like? Let me show you America's unbeautiful suburban sprawl | Alexander Hurst
I drove 2,000 miles with a French friend across my home country – and saw the endless nowhere land that is the crucible of Trumpism, says Guardian Europe correspondent Alexander Hurst
Somewhere along the line, the American Dream became to live alone, surrounded by all of this, rather than living in connection with other people.
#theguardian#maga#usa#suburbia#opinion#via:kottke
·theguardian.com·
What does Maga-land look like? Let me show you America's unbeautiful suburban sprawl | Alexander Hurst