kels 🧩🌱

reading and having an occasional non-vintage thought @stanfordMTL

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

THIS ALSO as an alternate project to utopia which would tell us that the work is far ahead of us and not in every moment and that justice is a big project that needs new institutions—i am more interested in a practice of living that deinstitutionalizes

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

Remembering a story by zhuangzi that was among many other things a teaching about what to do when the going gets hard:
Be careful
Keep your eyes on what you’re doing
Work very slowly and subtly
And to remember that hard work is also the most satisfying

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

THIS as an alternate sensibility to the political nihilism and capitalist “realism” that our social systems have taught us that would tell us that difficulty is a symptom of unworkability and that we should just give up

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

Writing with the deeply confusing and complexly yummy process of “making art” and doing “creative work” under conditions of technocratic capitalism: https://t.co/t9d9GS0bo5

[Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca]

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying.

Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt.

Here's what 4 months of data revealed:

(hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

[N @dearvotion]

These are so sick.

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

@GoodBeanCoco Exactly

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

It is possible to develop a technology against technocracy—in fact it is a political imperative in our time to think about how the technical can be recuperated from its appropriation as techniques of control/management by regimes of power

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

“living application” as a field of communication—how can technical systems/tools become deinstituted networks that grow/change along w us rather than institutions which siphon energy from creative desire to sustain/reproduce/reify themselves?

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

“We want infrastructure that transforms static software into living systems, enabling applications to grow with their users and become more valuable through use”

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

@inworld_ai just dropped their manifesto, in which they made a coherent bid for a deinstitutive infrastructure that builds bottom-up/ incorporates users meaningfully into evolution & AI’s role in this

https://t.co/twxmEQhyyX

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

“living application” as a field of communication—how can technical systems/tools become deinstituted networks that grow/change along w us rather than institutions which siphon energy from creative desire to sustain/reproduce/reify themselves?

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

“Nothing remains static. Every component must be learnable and changeable in near-real-time.”

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

@evanjconrad 🙏🥺✨thank you!!! It was such an honor

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

@startingfromnix @sfcompute Thank u so much !!! 🙏🙏🥺

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

🙏🌱✨so grateful to get to work and be with the lovely folks at @sfcompute ; this process changed the way i think about how spaces of gathering can support care—& commons/private, protected/open dynamics—& how spaces can support intimacy with others & also with onself

[Jasmine Wang @j_asminewang]

my dear friend @silkpunkbot is a brilliant Bay Area-based designer available for hire. she does many things but most recently she designed @sfcompute’s office space to be more convivial and beautiful to encourage an in-office culture. she even custom-made driftwood chandeliers!

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

@chloewchia @sfcompute Thank uuu 🥺🙏🙏

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

Someone needs to do media studies x religious studies research on human as medium for the more-than-human

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

gotta remind myself of this constantly as i write & undertake other crafts that will always be insufficient in the face of the immensity and subtlety that i am trying to approach--gotta finish it. don't leave shit half done or even 90% done. finish.

[kels 🧩🌱 @silkpunkbot]

i don't learn by succeeding or by failing, but by finishing