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The something “more intimate than just a feed of all your friends” that Zuckerberg yearns for would presumably be some sort of AI agent that knows all your secrets, is willing to talk to you about nothing but you and your needs, and will act on your behalf when it has calculated what is in your interests (or whatever interests the machine serves),
Two Riders Were Approaching
Rob Horning
The content serves as a description of the form, with all its doublings and chinese-box secrets, thus foregrounding the notion of the secret itself - what Deleuze describes as something the content of which is too big for its form. Such metonymy works by appeal to the suggestion that the (hidden) functional blueprint of the two disparate items - the house and the mind, or the form and the content - is identical.
They say: *We can act like Nazis not because we are all secret Nazis in the official underground Nazi club, but rather, because we are free to play with History that YOU have deemed inappropriate in your era of total cultural dominance.* They are playing with norms, poking and prodding in much the same way that progressive attacks on modern progress emerged in art during the 1960s and 70s.
The Meaning of Musk's Nazi Salute - by Matthew Ellis
Matthew Ellis
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