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Tweets from Jim Fan
@DrJimFan on Twitter
So at first the data reflects existing sociality, but soon datafication begins to change social behavior to correspond with how it is being quantified. Becoming data comes to seem like the primary means of social participation, if not the point of it (as though the point of sociality was to “get likes,” etc.).
Fake Totalities
Rob Horning
Hatherley points out that “Now and Then” sounds like a generative model’s approximation of the Beatles, and it’s hard to disagree, especially since it would be fitting if the comparison could help each discredit the other. But mostly it is just easy, for me at least, to make a self-satisfied show of contempt for it, which doesn’t discredit anything but myself. It wants to be forgettable, so we forget about the ongoing conditions that made it possible too.
The Beatles Did Not Take Place
Rob Horning
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