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A culture that is merely preserved is no culture at all.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
Artificial intelligence, as its critics like to say, is [neither artificial nor intelligent](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/06/microsofts-kate-crawford-ai-is-neither-artificial-nor-intelligent). It requires material resources and depends entirely on human labor, so it’s not artificial; and it has no intentionality or reasoning capabilities, so it’s not intelligent.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
Human interest stories seem pretty dehumanizing for their subjects, who have one aspect of their life magnified, commodified, and circulated for the amusement of people who otherwise don’t care. If human interest stories weren’t made with humans, we could possibly enjoy them with less guilt. But that assumes that inflicting the trauma of attention on actual people isn’t part of what we enjoy in the first place.
Have You Heard the Word
Rob Horning
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