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Next we bring in creative divergence. How? **Geists!** Geists will be little bots that live in your Subconscious. They’ll do useful things… finding connections between notes, remixing notes, issuing oracular provocations and gnomic utterances.
Designing User Interfaces With Bots Not Buttons
Matt Webb
The old idea from Iris Murdoch endures: the most important revelation that stories offer is that *other people exist*. Stories in fiction and stories unfolding right before our eyes. Other people exist! A miraculous banality, half comedy and half tragedy, and a truth that takes rituals and habits to take seriously. We calibrate our inflated sense of self by learning from others’ gifts and from their suffering, and perhaps we learn the most when those two are almost irreducibly mixed.
Object Lessons
Sara Hendren
It’s also silly when the moral terms of our engagement with other people are set for us by the discourse, whatever that is. And, I mean, on my less generous days, I go with it just like anyone else. The same as ordering a Lyft or ordering a hamburger because I don’t want to cook. The convenience of our moment recreated in not just our art but also our human discourse and human congress.
Massachusetts Holy Ghost - By Brandon - Sweater Weather
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