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Wir Menschen sind Säugetiere mit einem recht kleinen #Mesokosmos. Sowohl den #Mikrokosmos wie auch #Makrokosmos erschließen wir uns durch #Medien wie #Narrative & #Symbole.
Noch jede #Medienrevolution verstärkte diesen Trend. Dieser lustig gemeinte Clip der #DailyShow zeigt, dass wir inzwischen im gleichen Haus wohnen können & doch nicht mehr in der gleichen #Lebenswelt. Wir bilden soziale #Blasen & zunehmend individuelle #Kokons. Auch im #Fediversum. (1/2) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wvuh0867aOQ
OK, big thread time. It will seem a little bit meandery, but I promise it all comes together in the end.
The topic is, as is increasingly usual for my rants, the #disingenuous #western #press and its service of #narrative over information. The seeds of this rant were planted when @architecture posted a link to this story:
I urge you to read both the headline and the article before continuing. But I'll be starting with the headline.
Obliquely.
Endlessly interested in “the surreal nature of being stuck between two worlds,” Mexican artist Christian Ruiz Berman channels his experiences of immigration and adapting to new environments through his painting practice.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/07/christian-ruiz-berman-paintings/
@DrALJONES "private (security) contractors" sounds so much nicer than #mercenaries. It's like the newspeak of "clean war".
The first talk of Day 2 of #CCLS2025 is by Katrin Rohrbacher: Opening Worlds: Narrative Beginnings and the Role of Setting (https://doi.org/10.26083/tuprints-00030149)
#Space #NovelOpenings #Narrative
Yay, out now: "AI #Narrative Breakdown. A Critical Assessment of #Power and #Promise", https://doi.org/10.1145/3715275.3732083
"This article scrutinizes the pervasive narratives that are shaping the societal engagement with #artificial #intelligence (AI) such as agency & decision-making, autonomy, truthfulness, knowledge processing, prediction, general purpose, neutrality & objectivity, apolitical optimization, sustainability game-changer, democratization, mass unemployment, & the dualistic portrayal of AI as either a harbinger of societal utopia or dystopia. The article introduces the notion of "#Zeitgeist AI" to critique the misleading application of the term "AI" across various societal sectors. Then, by discussing the narratives with nuance, the article contextualises & deconstructs often assumed socio-political implications of AI, uncovering in detail and with examples the inherent political, #power infused & value-laden decisions within all AI applications."
3/5
It’s not just #economic #exploitation, but also #consent #manufacturing, #narrative #manipulation, and #criminalizing #dissent. #Democracy is just a #facade; behind it, a #totalitarian #rationality is taking root.
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