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A reflective take on how modern systems—from social media to certifications—reward surface-level wins over deep effort. This post explores how we’ve learned to game metrics, optimize for the minimum, and lose sight of meaning in the process. It asks: what happens when the game replaces the goal?
The Troll Hole Adventure
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/03/the-troll-hole-adventure-1980/
Jeffrey Goldberg on the Group Chat That Broke the Internet
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Following the full recovery after the cyberattack to @internetarchive on October 2024 and the current increasing attacks to #DigitalPreservation and #KnowledgeFreedom, worst-case scenarios unfortunately are no longer unthinkable. While planning, maybe they should be considered as entirely possible instead.
The context is changing, and preserving our fragile #DigitalCulture may require an ever-deeper awareness of the possible failures for core foundations until recently taken for granted
@linz_fmr looks for new productions on the areas of Digital Afterlife and Immortality; Future Archaeology and Digital Artifacts; Digital Deceleration, Isolation, and the New Idyll: as well as AI Societies, Power Structures, and Resistance.
"In all fairness, let me say that the corporations didn’t intend to make the culture stagnant and boring. They didn’t intend to cause teen depression, suicidal impulses, anxiety, self-harm, and all the rest.
All they really wanted was to impose standardization and predictability. That’s what businesses always want—because it’s more profitable.
But corporate standardization always brings negative unintended effects:
It destroyed artisans and craftsmanship—because uniformity was more profitable.
It eliminated indie businesses from your community—because uniformity was more profitable.
It made every mall look the same—because uniformity was more profitable.
It made architecture boring, turning everything into a box—because uniformity was more profitable.
It banished beauty from everyday life—because uniformity was more profitable.
You can even see this quest for uniformity and standardization in their corporate symbols. Every logo now looks exactly the same.
But here’s the problem. With the rise of social media and other apps, corporations are now trying to impose standardization on people.
That means you and me."
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-world-was-flat-now-its-flattened
Tracking SXSW's evolution since '94, from the first Multimedia track to today's digital confluence. My survival guide (now my blog's second-most-read piece) has mapped this transformation, but the landscape keeps shifting.
The last five years reshaped everything. What wisdom should we pass on?
https://thebradking.com/2020/02/19/sxsw-nerdpocalypse/
#SXSW #DigitalCulture #Austin
Vanishing Culture: What Early Internet Era GIFs Show Us About Preserving Digital Culture
By JD Shadel via @internetarchive
Download the complete Vanishing Culture report here:
https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-report
Unsere #Podcast Serie #netzrauschen ist nach einer kurzen kreativen Pause wieder mit neuen Folgen aktiv! Alte und neue Folgen rund um #netzkunst #digitalrights #privacy #freiesoftware und Spannendes aus der mur-Community und unserem Rechenzentrum hört ihr hier:
https://cba.media/podcast/netzrauschen
Our #podcast series #netzrauschen is back! After some hiatus we are publishing new episodes featuring topics on #netart #digitalculture #mediaart #digitalrights #foss plus news from our community and from our server space! Check it out and leave us some comments if you like!
Interested in #newmedia and #digitalculture?
Come find us at the @utrechtuniversity Master Open Day on Feb. 7 2025.
Sessions about our program New Media & Digital Culture 16:00 - 17:00 & 17:30-18:30.
Location: Drift 25, Utrecht, room 102.
Register here: https://www.uu.nl/en/node/118908/general-information/choosing-a-masters-programme/masters-open-day
RT @manovich
The final version of our book 'Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media' is now available as a free PDF download #GenerativeAI #DigitalCulture #Aesthetics #AIArt https://manovich.net/index.php/projects/artificial-aesthetics
"If there is one thing we should have learned over the years, it is that as users and content creators, we should opt for protocols that allow us to manage, preserve and transport our data, content and communities beyond the platforms and their black boxes." By @jlori
#DigitalCulture #InternetCulture
https://jlori.medium.com/the-butterfly-effect-now-its-bluesky-s-turn-d49992a6d7f2
This event looks great! Organized by @creativecoding, friends of our MA program New Media & Digital Culture @utrechtuniversity #creativecoding #newmedia #digitalculture
https://iterations.online
ITERATIONS 2024 - CREATIVE CODING SYMPOSIUM
How do recent technological developments empower makers to generate new creative avenues? How is the creative coding landscape going to evolve in the coming few years? These questions will be explored during the creative coding symposium.
"Pensar que la fuga de Twitter/X es la gran migración de la era digital es un espejismo fruto de las altas temperaturas y un inflacionado optimismo de la voluntad. Este no es el primero ni será el último desplazamiento de una plataforma a otra. La evolución del ecosistema mediático está atravesada por constantes migraciones entre dispositivos (del walkman al iPod), formatos (del WAV al MP3), medios (del cine a la televisión) y plataformas (de Twitter/X a… ¿Mastodon? ¿Threads? ¿Bluesky?). Tratándose de un ecosistema complejo, lo peor que podemos hacer es reducir estos desplazamientos a movimientos lineales de A > B o pensar que se producen por una causa única. La mirada evolutiva nos debería servir para comprender mejor estas dinámicas de la esfera mediática que, cada tanto, nos obligan a tomar decisiones."
They Searched Through Hundreds of Bands to Solve an Online Mystery - After 17 years, a group of Redditors have identified “The Most Mysterious Song on the Int... - https://www.wired.com/story/the-most-mysterious-song-on-the-internet-mystery-solved/ #culture/digitalculture #digitalculture #culture/music #culture
After Trump's Victory, the 4B Movement Is Spreading Across TikTok - The 4B movement, from South Korea, calls for women to not date, marry, sleep with, or hav... - https://www.wired.com/story/trump-election-4b-movement-tiktok-x-reddit/ #culture/digitalculture #digitalculture #culture
#BBSs #CyberCulture #DigitalCulture: "On Friday, Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), died at age 78 in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Christensen, along with Randy Suess, created the first BBS in Chicago in 1978, leading to an important cultural era of digital community-building that presaged much of our online world today.
Friends and associates remember Christensen as humble and unassuming, a quiet innovator who never sought the spotlight for his groundbreaking work. Despite creating one of the foundational technologies of the digital age, Christensen maintained a low profile throughout his life, content with his long-standing career at IBM and showing no bitterness or sense of missed opportunity as the Internet age dawned.
"Ward was the quietest, pleasantest, gentlest dude," said BBS: The Documentary creator Jason Scott in a conversation with Ars Technica. Scott documented Christensen's work extensively in a 2002 interview for that project. "He was exactly like he looks in his pictures," he said, "like a groundskeeper who quietly tends the yard.""