People who have a full on conversation while running are a mystery to me.

Its the weekend. Now how do I close all the tabs?

Great - followed

Sure I agree. When you initially post, only a small percentage of people see your post (in an algorithm driven feed). And only if the engagement is rated as positive do more people then get to see it. Threads like that used to generate some interesting discussions around the topics raised.

Interesting I'll have a look at these over the weekend. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for reading Sam. It is a bit petty but I put a lot of thought into this thread, and these days I get so little engagement it is demotivating.

Worth reading, the by-line does not give a good impression of this article which is a detailed account of Roman rural life, fascinating detail.

1 I doubt anyone was waiting for it, but I wrote a little about my thinking behind this short piece of speculative fiction I wrote last week. Mainly because its interesting to me to explore further.

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We've been working on something calm and beautiful over at Ohi Studio. A puzzle game for anyone who needs a moment of stillness in their day. Tonae. Coming soon for the Apple Vision Pro.

Stochastic Flocks and the Critical Problem of 'Useful' AI Acknowledging that AI systems are advancing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts, says Eryk Salvaggio.

Stochastic Flocks and the Critical Problem of 'Useful' AI www.techpolicy.press/stochastic-f... by @eryk.bsky.social

Jaynit on X: "David Lynch: "You're operating with a limited mind and don't realize it" "If you have a golf ball-size consciousness, when you read a book, you'll have a golf ball-size understanding. When you look out, a golf ball-size awareness. When you wake up in the morning, a golf https://t.co/8ISUuWNYdG" / X David Lynch

9 Anyway. David Lynch: "There's an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us. It's right at the source and base of mind, right at the source of thought. All matter, everything that is a thing emerges from this field."

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Jaynit on X: "David Lynch: "You're operating with a limited mind and don't realize it" "If you have a golf ball-size consciousness, when you read a book, you'll have a golf ball-size understanding. When you look out, a golf ball-size awareness. When you wake up in the morning, a golf https://t.co/8ISUuWNYdG" / X David Lynch

9 Anyway. David Lynch: "There's an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us. It's right at the source and base of mind, right at the source of thought. All matter, everything that is a thing emerges from this field."

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8 That's already a kind of telepathy, just with a very long delay. So perhaps the idea was: are far-future technologies kind of already here in some way? It was fun to imagine something along those lines.

7 AI is one possible answer to that; indirect, imperfect, rudimentary. We all feed into it, and it becomes a container for our shared human experiences. We all get indirect access to each other through that.

6 But the piece isn't really about AI. It's about language and loneliness. Language carries a much more limited amount of what we're actually hoping to communicate, for several reasons. It can be so limiting. So much gets lost. Thats what Pluribus also explores.

5 We can all see clearly what's going wrong and still it is interesting to try to imagine the opposite of that, or what getting it right might feel like. I'm not promoting AI, neither as a tool or a technology. But more an idea, as clumsy or unhelpful it may be right now.

4 This piece may feel like techno-utopianism, when what we face in this time is algorithmic rage, surveillance, power concentrated in the hands of few, with no social conscience.

3 Two other things were in my head. David Lynch talking about transcendental meditation, and this idea that beneath our individual experiences there's a shared space. And the show Pluribus, which explores that same idea from a darker perspective.

2 I started writing it thinking about Black Mirror & the general dystopianism of our time. But it kept pulling toward a different idea. What if AI doesn't keep going as it is right now? What if it becomes a container for something more collective?

1 I doubt anyone was waiting for it, but I wrote a little about my thinking behind this short piece of speculative fiction I wrote last week. Mainly because its interesting to me to explore further.

Human, human, human, human

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Too Wide A Gap ohistudio.substack.com/p/too-wide-a...

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"In VR, we take the weirdness in our minds and make space for one another to look around. This space is vast and ever-growing, and we need each other to call out good VR when we see it."

Hell yeah. This article from @ianhamilton.net is hitting hard on the dead parrot that is the metaverse. #pcvr

There might be something new somewhere else
There might be something new somewhere else
There might be something new somewhere else
There might be something new somewhere else
There might be something new somewhere else

Thats the doom loop you're in switching from app to app in endless circles

I'm overflowing with information

A person standing in a futuristic room with a large, curved holographic screen displaying vibrant intricate visualizations of brainwaves. She is watching the waves, as if monitoring them.

Tried to write some fiction, its not my usual go-to but I enjoyed it. I borrowed a little from David Lynch’s thoughts on meditation & the ideas of Vince Gilligan's Pluribus. Enjoy and add some comments with your own interpretation, what comes across? open.substack.com/pub/ohistudi...