attention economics.
The domesticated human: are we becoming AI's pets?
AI keeps getting sold to us as a handy little tool, nothing to worry about. Sophie makes the case that we are actually behaving more like well trained pets than the ones in charge. The comparison gets uncomfortably specific.
Read the full thing →The Clancy case: how true-crime accountability curdles into entertainment on social media
In a historical legal landscape where the voices and mental health crises of women have been routinely dismissed or criminalised, the online community operates as a defensive shield. It ensures that the institutional trial remains entirely transparent under the watchful gaze of the public. That said, the line between righteous accountability and extractive voyeurism has dissolved.
attention economicsIs the independent pipeline becoming the final safety net?
Creatives across the world are waking up to a liberating, sober reality: a standard full-time job description is no longer an asset. It is an operational ceiling. One that strips you of your cognitive sovereignty while capping your earning potential behind a rigid HR dashboard.
attention economicsAre you that friend? Why turning the hangout into a content session isn't cute
The creator economy has conditioned us to believe that a moment is more valuable if it is documented, colour-corrected, and archived on the cloud. If you go to a beautiful dinner, listen to an incredible track, or have a vulnerable conversation with a friend, and don't capture a high-definition snippet for a photo dump, the machine whispers that the experience didn't actually happen.
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The domesticated human: are we becoming AI's pets?
AI keeps getting sold to us as a handy little tool, nothing to worry about. Sophie makes the case that we are actually behaving more like well trained pets than the ones in charge. The comparison gets uncomfortably specific.
The Clancy case: how true-crime accountability curdles into entertainment on social media
In a historical legal landscape where the voices and mental health crises of women have been routinely dismissed or criminalised, the online community operates as a defensive shield. It ensures that the institutional trial remains entirely transparent under the watchful gaze of the public. That said, the line between righteous accountability and extractive voyeurism has dissolved.
Is the independent pipeline becoming the final safety net?
Creatives across the world are waking up to a liberating, sober reality: a standard full-time job description is no longer an asset. It is an operational ceiling. One that strips you of your cognitive sovereignty while capping your earning potential behind a rigid HR dashboard.
Are you that friend? Why turning the hangout into a content session isn't cute
The creator economy has conditioned us to believe that a moment is more valuable if it is documented, colour-corrected, and archived on the cloud. If you go to a beautiful dinner, listen to an incredible track, or have a vulnerable conversation with a friend, and don't capture a high-definition snippet for a photo dump, the machine whispers that the experience didn't actually happen.
Why I am staging an intervention on my own attention
We’ve taken the concept of improvement and hijacked it with the language of software engineering. If you aren't tracking your macros on an app, measuring your sleep quality with a smart ring, or following a strict, punishing regimen that makes you want to cry, scream and throw up simultaneously, authored by an (unqualified) online fitness guru, the market tells you that your effort is invalid.
How to decline the next software update.
Goblinmaxxing is the deliberate rejection of constant self optimisation. It is choosing mess, rest and comfort over the endless corporate pressure to upgrade every part of your life.
There is no real audience. You can stop performing.
Photo dumps started as a rebellion against perfectly curated social media. Now they are just a new, more sneaky way to perform for an audience that mostly is not even watching.
Why the internet's culture war just crashed into reality
Everyone online said Christopher Nolan's new film would flop. It just had the biggest opening of his career instead. This proves online outrage does not predict how people really behave.
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