Reading the World - Part 1

The Medium Is the Message

Jun 19, 2024

I’m working on several lengthy posts and video projects that may take weeks or months to ripen for publication. In the meantime, I’m sharing links and memes without annotations, starting with what I find most relevant for my work on MISM, my main Substack dedicated to understanding media.

Substack Posts

The Algorithmic Bridge

AI Firms Sold Their Souls to Steal Yours

A blog about AI that's actually about people I. Sins and surveillance Did you know you can map how artificial intelligence companies do things into the seven deadly sins? Look: Pride: “No one but us knows how to bring prosperity and abundance to the world. We’ll do that with a…

a year ago · 9 likes · 2 comments · Alberto Romero

Expressive Egg

A Painless Hell

The world rewards unconsciousness and punishes consciousness. The world rewards stress, it rewards boredom, it rewards lack of originality, it rewards selfishness, it rewards fear and it rewards obedience, addiction and fakery. This world wants you to be…

a year ago · Darren Allen

Read Max

A new A.I. influencer is producing some of the most criminal charts I've ever seen

Greetings from Read Max HQ! In today’s newsletter: Who is “Leopold Aschenbrenner,” and why is he suddenly a top A.I. influencer?; and A short history of the anti-woke finance grift, starring Bill Ackman and Vivek Ramaswamy. If you prefer to listen to Read Max rather than read it, a recording of me reading this newsletter…

a year ago · 111 likes · 20 comments · Max Read

Discourse

Truth Follows Function

We are supposed to live in a post-truth world—I have said so myself, and more than once. What does that mean? Basically, that trust in our interpreters of truth—the elites, the mediating class, whatever one chooses to call them—has evaporated. We haven’t believed our presidents for at least a generation. We haven’t believed the news media and other orga…

a year ago · Martin Gurri

The Honest Broker

How Picasso Turned Me into a Strategy Consultant

The story of how I became a strategy consultant is shameful. I was a student at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and needed a job after graduation. I wanted to work in the music or entertainment industries—but I soon learned this was an impossible dream…

a year ago · 15 likes · 1 comment · Ted Gioia

Rushkoff

Love and Magick are Our Best Hope

As I explained in my last few posts, I’m taking a bit of a hiatus this summer to focus on a couple of larger projects and also to “reset” my creative circadian rhythm after having succumbed to the implied pace of these platforms. It has given me the time to delve deeply into thre…

a year ago · 8 likes · Douglas Rushkoff

Videos

Then What?

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Reading the World - Part 1

The Medium Is the Message

Substack Posts

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