Gilbert

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Checkout ‘gugggday☁️’ on @titlesxyz made with Netmorf Design model by @gilbert

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THRESHOLD: Thank you all for the journey over the last 2 years. Folklore began in August 2019, to gather like-minded folks interested in how the internet is shaping culture around the world. Folklore crowdfunded more than ~20k USD, all of which has been used to commission new essays (8 to be exact), create an proof-of-concept community LLM chatbot called ARK ("Authentic Record of Knowledge", short for Archive), and developing a working onchain-to-RSS feed for collective curation. It has been an incubation hub, experimenting with ideas that will inevitably become common products in many other communities. And like many journeys, they often find a place to pause, and to settle. Gilbert and I will be using the remaining funds to organize the vast set of curated links and digitized books and synthesizing them into a commemorative item (likely digital). In this way, anyone can re-create ARK or continue the curation. May you be blessed by the awakening algorithmic gods. https://ift.tt/REn9gy8

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Netmorf Corporate Graphics model went live on titles.xyz this week

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To those on the Netmorf corporate retreat: we’ve had a lost attendee badge handed in at reception

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This part week I’ve been the first guest curator at Contemporary NFT Daily. Gallery and short essay: https://www.contemporarynftdaily.com

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What’s interesting about this piece, getting some traction over the last days, is how its lite-doomerism makes no mention of blockchains! Only a few years ago blockchains were a primary element in narratives of a network uncaringly optimised for computational agents autonomously redistributing capital. Isn’t it typical of doomerism to underestimate the capacity of humans to mess up even the most perfectly bleak singularity? https://mirror.xyz/ramonmarc.eth/1G9oLJWblzK1u8rLxIcgqjYO0uULbS3LyBTePqLHmok

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While three-person startups feel bound to communicate like corporations the consumer crypto space is going nowhere and inspiring no-one.

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I’m curating and posting regular articles on digital community, lore-craft, and design at Foklore. In the Folklore channel here and the Telegram feed linked at https://folklore.institute

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By way of follow-up on the Remilia Quarterly piece posted a few weeks ago, this is McKenzie Wark on the contemporary politics of cuteness. https://www.frieze.com/article/mckenzie-wark-politics-cuteness-246?utm_source=FRIEZE&utm_campaign=1bdc721c5d-newsletter-politics-cuteness&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0ebe20dcf-1bdc721c5d-519502209

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Despite basically everyone I admire in the space showing up to vote for me got sniped by a pay-to-win 😔

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Less than an hour to go and it's close, need a few more legends to show-up 😅

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BRANDING AND THE OPEN WORK: It’s a year since my piece about headless brands and Folklore’s adoption of the labyrinth as an open-ended icon was published. https://folklore.mirror.xyz/v3KHFm-Fz288fjTIcp5Gd63rXoANBewXqbypQqZesSw

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Less than 12 hours to go on the Crowdmuse Cyberphysical comp — give me a little boost somebody? This needs to get made and sipped. https://www.jokerace.io/contest/optimism/0x079a413af162d0807f4b160f396160c61e5da84f

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For the Crowdmuse/IDEO CoLab Ventures cyberphysical design contest I developed a Netmorf-branded vial of mildly psychedelic Blue Lotus flower extract, to be produced in collaboration with Berlin-based mood-shop Amama. Vote for it here, 24 hours to go: https://www.jokerace.io/contest/optimism/0x079a413af162d0807f4b160f396160c61e5da84f$0

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friends, please vote for me in the crowdmuse cyberphysical design comp so that I can release another netmorf physical product https://jokerace.io/contest/optimism/0x079a413af162d0807f4b160f396160c61e5da84f/submission/18934952731597637207227136237727347319227886458710481577574409260322581483660

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A habit I used to have when email was overwhelming: disconnect from WiFi then write as many replies as possible. Reconnect for just as long as they took to actually send then switch the computer off. Something about there being no possibility of more replies coming right back during the writing session brought a certain peace😂

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On the calcification of computing metaphors: “Our software interfaces are fiercely rigid; they can’t be meaningfully nudged — in big ways or small — to more closely reflect our mental models or meet our individual needs.” https://alexanderobenauer.com/think/

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Fascinating that this would be considered curatorially legit given the pseudo-spiritual discourse around Rothko!

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