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But both things can be true. SHEIN might be singled out as the worst fast-fashion retailer because the United States fears and envies China and has a particular interest in denigrating its successes, and it might be singled out because it is, in fact, the worst: the greatest polluter, the most flagrant IP thief, the largest violator of human rights, and — arguably worst of all — the most profitable. SHEIN has shown the world that unsustainability pays.
Super Cute Please Like | Issue 47 | n+1 | Nicole Lipman
Even the user experience is similar, in the way that both Amazon and SHEIN feel junkified: pages are unpolished, with varying product listings and completely unpredictable product qualities. For all the environmental and labor horrors of H&M, at least shopping at hm.com feels like shopping at a real clothing store. SHEIN, conversely, is a microcosm of the internet and a sibling of the internet’s other most powerful retailer: weird, clunky, and seemingly thrown together.
Super Cute Please Like | Issue 47 | n+1 | Nicole Lipman
But it won’t have the magic that people like so much.
Sam Altman says hallucinations are part of the “magic” of generative AI | ITPro
But the fact that these AI systems can come up with new ideas and be creative, that’s a lot of the power. Now, you want them to be creative when you want, and factual when you want.
Sam Altman says hallucinations are part of the “magic” of generative AI | ITPro
As the world transfers its bulk to the digital sphere, digital gods and digital cosmogonies have risen to replace older humanistic and naturalistic ones.
Are You There God? It's Me, The Algorithm. by Will Allstetter
an emergent tendency of the algorithmic age: an abandonment of imagination and an acceptance of the end of history.
Are You There God? It's Me, The Algorithm. by Will Allstetter
the emotionality of these videos is not drawn from the diseases these people suffer, but from the confirmation that the algorithm knows about it.
Are You There God? It's Me, The Algorithm. by Will Allstetter
Authorless, unwieldy, and lacking a clear genealogy, it takes on a dispersed life of its own.
Are You There God? It's Me, The Algorithm. by Will Allstetter
When the black box is introduced, a combination of impenetrable structures and apparent super-intelligence sells the Algorithm as all-knowing. We mere mortals cannot compete.
Are You There God? It's Me, The Algorithm. by Will Allstetter
Sadly, unseating The Algorithm’s mystical perception is almost prohibitively hard in our current algorithmic landscape.
Are You There God? It's Me, The Algorithm. by Will Allstetter
Rather than existing as an entity beyond human understanding, computers have simply made human logic and knowledge appear mystical by taking it to the nth-degree.
Are You There God? It's Me, The Algorithm. by Will Allstetter
There is no promise of intangible spiritual well-being or nirvanic enlightenment that one might expect from supplicating to a higher power. Rather, they center around accruing capital. Making yourself a more desirable citizen, consumer, girlfriend, student, etc.
Are You There God? It's Me, The Algorithm. by Will Allstetter
The computer, if we are to believe in its power, is working on a higher plane than humans.
Are You There God? It's Me, The Algorithm. by Will Allstetter
the Algorithm is seen as akin to a tamable (super)natural phenomenon, rather than a man-made tool. It can’t be reached into, adjusted, or reconstructed. Instead, like a force of nature, it is submitted to and—if the user is adept enough—handled.
Are You There God? It's Me, The Algorithm. by Will Allstetter
He dubs this modern experience of unknowable and pseudo-religious mechanical scale the digital sublime, a feeling that arises from machinery that “achieves transcendence through astonishment, awe, terror, and psychic distance.” Contact between the individual and the Algorithm operates at that same psychic distance; everything behind the screen is too abstract, too large, and too secretive to understand. Logic and reason are replaced with awe.
Are You There God? It's Me, The Algorithm. by Will Allstetter
These rules underpin all computerized tools, from a washing machine timer to a plane’s autopilot. Yet the term has become synonymous with recommendation algorithms. The numerous, secretive, inaccessible programs that select what social media serves up to us coalesce under the banner of the Algorithm. In the Algorithm’s shadowy complexity, its role as a mundane, simple rule follower is lost.
Are You There God? It's Me, The Algorithm. by Will Allstetter
As the user, I’m prompted to believe that the algorithm is all-knowing, all-seeing, and smart. Awe-inspiringly smart. Effortlessly omniscient. It captures me, it knows me.
Are You There God? It's Me, The Algorithm. by Will Allstetter
TikTok’s algorithm (at least to my small fleshy brain) appears to be a transcendental force, surpassing the limits of human perception and cognition.
Are You There God? It's Me, The Algorithm. by Will Allstetter
Virtual reality is no substitute for the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the sacramental reality of the other sacraments, and shared worship in a flesh-and-blood human community. There are no sacraments on the Internet; and even the religious experiences possible there by the grace of God are insufficient apart from real-world interaction with other persons of faith.
The Church and Internet
Virtual reality is no substitute for the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the sacramental reality of the other sacraments, and shared worship in a flesh-and-blood human community. There are no sacraments on the Internet; and even the religious experiences possible there by the grace of God are insufficient apart from real-world interaction with other persons of faith.
The Church and Internet
One area for research concerns the suggestion that the wide range of choices regarding consumer products and services available on the Internet may have a spillover effect in regard to religion and encourage a ‘consumer' approach to matters of faith. Data suggest that some visitors to religious web sites may be on a sort of shopping spree, picking and choosing elements of customized religious packages to suit their personal tastes.
The Church and Internet
The proliferation of web sites calling themselves Catholic creates a problem of a different sort. As we have said, church-related groups should be creatively present on the Internet; and well-motivated, well-informed individuals and unofficial groups acting on their own initiative are entitled to be there as well. But it is confusing, to say the least, not to distinguish eccentric doctrinal interpretations, idiosyncratic devotional practices, and ideological advocacy bearing a ‘Catholic' label from the authentic positions of the Church.
The Church and Internet
there also are benefits more or less peculiar to the Internet. It offers people direct and immediate access to important religious and spiritual resources—great libraries and museums and places of worship, the teaching documents of the Magisterium, the writings of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church and the religious wisdom of the ages.
The Church and Internet
the Church now needs to understand the Internet. This is necessary in order to communicate effectively with people—especially young people—who are steeped in the experience of this new technology, and also in order to use it well.
The Church and Internet
Trinitarian communication “reaches out to humankind: The Son is the Word, eternally ‘spoken' by the Father; and in and through Jesus Christ, Son and Word made flesh, God communicates himself and his salvation to women and men”.
The Church and Internet
Consider...the positive capacities of the Internet to carry religious information and teaching beyond all barriers and frontiers. Such a wide audience would have been beyond the wildest imaginings of those who preached the Gospel before us...
The Church and Internet
“it is not enough to use the media simply to spread the Christian message and the Church's authentic teaching. It is also necessary to integrate that message into the ‘new culture' created by modern communications”
The Church and Internet
Pope Paul VI said the Church “would feel guilty before the Lord” if it failed to use the media for evangelization.
The Church and Internet
“The Church sees these media as ‘gifts of God' which, in accordance with his providential design, unite men in brotherhood and so help them to cooperate with his plan for their salvation”.[5] This remains our view, and it is the view we take of the Internet.
The Church and Internet
Tardé casi un año en cumplir; si procrastino cosas que no llevan más de quince minutos, ¿cómo no iba a demorar algo que después dura para toda la vida?
Emoción Violenta – EL TERCER CAJÓN
In the girlhood aesthetic, beauty is bound up with pain and pain becomes beautiful
a girl is an open question - by Helena Aeberli
The contradiction at the heart of female beauty is that it is considered an essential part of femininity, necessary for women to survive under patriarchy (whether by elevating one’s value in the sexual market or simply avoiding careless cruelty and discrimination), yet is systematically devalued as frivolous and a source of ridicule.
a girl is an open question - by Helena Aeberli
but I do feel we’ve lost something now girlhood has hit the mainstream. Something critical, in both senses of the word. Something which knew that yes, it is that deep.
a girl is an open question - by Helena Aeberli
It is unsurprising then that this flight into girlhood has occurred alongside the rise of what Emmeline Clein first termed 'dissociative’ or ‘disassociation feminism’
a girl is an open question - by Helena Aeberli
In doing so, they infantilise themselves, reject the autonomy as well as the anxieties of modern life. ‘Refusing to be the Other, refusing complicity with man, would mean renouncing all the advantages an alliance with the superior caste confers on them…
a girl is an open question - by Helena Aeberli
Girlhood — a concept which crystallised on the Tumblr of the 2010s, the platform I grew up on — has exploded into the mainstream in recent years. From ‘hot girl summer’ and ‘hot girl walks’ to ‘girl math’ and ‘girl dinner’, ‘girlypops’ and ‘babygirls’, ‘I’m just a girl’, ‘eldest daughters’, ‘female rage’ and a thousand other memes, the cult of the girl has saturated every corner of internet life in pastel pink.
a girl is an open question - by Helena Aeberli
Many people are concerned with the idea of RPF “dehumanizing” real people by turning them into characters.
On RPF and Why People Love to Write Stories About Public Figures | Teen Vogue
I know what I write isn’t the reality of these people, but their public personas have become a way to explore complex emotional issues through writing.
On RPF and Why People Love to Write Stories About Public Figures | Teen Vogue
RPF can be a way to show or expand upon connection with a celebrity who fans are already interested in due to the parasocial relationship.
On RPF and Why People Love to Write Stories About Public Figures | Teen Vogue
Esas personas, que se ignoran, están salvando el mundo.
Los justos
pero antes de irse a dormir coloca el archivo subtitulado en su carpeta de compartidos para que cualquiera, desde cualquier máquina, desde cualquier lugar del mundo, pueda bajarlo. Fabio jamás olvida ese detalle.
Los justos
He believes anything can be an oracle; that the divine word reveals itself through randomness.
God's Lonely Programmer
But the idea of a digital oracle grew out of his earlier methods for talking to God. At first he'd open a Bible to a random page, and it would speak. Yet he had a general sense of where the book had opened, whether he might be choosing from Genesis or Revelation. He began using coin tosses to choose a page number; then he expanded his technique to include all the books in his library.
God's Lonely Programmer
"I thought the brain was a computer," Davis says, "And so I had no need for a soul."
God's Lonely Programmer
God demands a perfect temple, and Davis says, "For ten years, I worked on programming TempleOS, full time. I finished, basically, and the last year has been tiny touch-ups here and there."
God's Lonely Programmer
Where but digitally can you truly create your own reality?
Who the hell are 2girls1bottl3? - The Face
But the more one engages with the internet, the more one is absorbed into its processes, symbols and tropes, the more one loses oneself, digested into the anonymity of everyone else.
Who the hell are 2girls1bottl3? - The Face
Create a character of your own because everyone online is fake, anyway.
Who the hell are 2girls1bottl3? - The Face
to acknowledge our comfort with surveillance, simulation and loneliness
Who the hell are 2girls1bottl3? - The Face
Of the choice not to speak in their videos, Munchie expresses fatigue. “Honestly, the internet is too loud. The feed is too loud. TikTok is too loud. I’m scrolling and I just want everyone to shut the fuck up.”
Who the hell are 2girls1bottl3? - The Face