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FolkloreThe Balkanization & Babelification of the Internet
Welcome to Folklore, a community exploring the labyrinth of networked worlds. In this commissioned essay, Rue Yi and Ruby Justice Thelot explore the nature and consequence of our diverging online spaces. Rue talks into their screen in a room in Toronto. They keep a green hardback journal with them in case any good ideas want to make themselves known in the shape of daydreams. Ruby is a designer, cyberethnographer and artist. He is the founder of 13101401 Inc. and Adjunct Professor of Design a...
FolkloreThe $DEGEN Archives
Folklore has a mission to explore and understand our evolving digital worlds. Today, we’re happy to dive into the $DEGEN memecoin – a crypto-native fungible digital asset, tied to a social media meme – that emerged within the most recent break-out web 3 consumer social protocol called Farcaster. Before diving in, a note of gratitude to Bountycaster, for enabling us to find the right person to document $DEGEN. Tips and earnings from this post will be split among those that submitted essays for...
FolkloreHow to Repair a Spaceport: A metaphor for our technological present
Welcome to Folklore, a community exploring the labyrinth of networked worlds. In this newly-commissioned essay, Kei Kreutler reflects on standardization and technological interoperability through the metaphor of the fictional spaceport. Kei’s work explores how cultural narratives of technology shape what worlds we can build.No one knows how to repair a spaceport. This is because spaceports primarily exist as a fiction. Spaceports imply the existence of inter-Solar System, if not intergalactic...
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We’ve curated over 200 articles over the past nine months and some trends are beginning to appear. Specifically, we can look back and understand the primary sources of our readings, as well as the overarching theme.
Back in August 2022, when Folklore initially launched, I described the curation as “a unique intersection of content combining community, internet lorecraft, and human relationships in the digital realm”.
It turns out that Folklore’s curation can best be described as an exploration of The Digital Humanities.
Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities, as well as the analysis of their application.
Wikipedia
From GPT, the voice of Kafka:
In the shadowy realm where old manuscripts slumber, the digital humanities emerged as a metamorphosed being, fusing ancient wisdom with computational precision. This peculiar entity reached out to literature, history, and the arts, weaving an intricate web to unveil their secrets through a machine's gaze.
The labyrinth of data, once obscured, was traversed by this hybrid, exposing patterns and connections long hidden. An existential unease enveloped onlookers, contemplating the implications of such a transformation. The metamorphosis revealed the complexity of human thought and the inexorable advance of technology.
*ChatGPT4, Kafka on the Digital Humanities
At Folklore, curation is simple:
Browse Twitter
Browse Discord
Save articles in a backlog
Select daily content from the backlog
Content is chosen based on writing quality, diversity of source, and personal taste. In general, the content at Folklore leans towards technologies influencing interpersonal human connection today: crypto, artificial intelligence, social media, and other algorithmic technologies.
Overall, the content is sourced from communities, editorial publications, and secondary references.
Each community included here has their own crowdsourced curation. If you like Folklore, you will likely enjoy the people, conversations, and curation within each of these communities:
Our Discord serves as a living archive and experimental forum where members sense make, propose collaborations, and share work-in-progress. The forum is structured around our main research channels: 𓀬collective-bodies ∞intelligences 𓏖planetary 𓏃new-economies 𓏞play-and-mechanics 𓆲politics 𓁺aesthetics ▝▞
Dirt is a daily(ish) newsletter about the cutting edge of digital pop culture. Every week we send out multiple insightful short essays on topics like streaming, TikTok, video games, and web3, from a rotating group of critics.
The Yak Collective is an online space for collaborative tinkering.
welcome to the 0xSalon ::: event series, residency programme, epistemic skunkworks
In addition, there are a series of online publications which have excellent and compelling content. Here are a few that are constantly nurturing influential content:
Real Life was a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis was more on living. To find out more about us, click here. To find out more about our contributors, click here. Real Life was made possible by funding from Snap, Inc., and we operated with editorial independence and without ads.
Noema is a magazine exploring the transformations sweeping our world. We publish essays, reporting, interviews, videos and art on the overlapping realms of philosophy, governance, geopolitics, economics, technology and culture. In doing so, our unique approach is to get out of the usual lanes and cross disciplines, professions, social silos, political tribes and cultural boundaries.
Applied Research
Palladium is a San Francisco-based non-partisan publication that explores the future of governance and society through international journalism, long-form analysis, and social philosophy.
Galaxy brain speculations and vibin out.
FWB - Editorial
Finally, there are a few newsletters that constantly publish excellent thought pieces and link out to interesting sources (check the links and footnotes):
This is not a collection of links and news recaps. This is a critical exploration of what is happening in our technological environments, how it shapes us, and how we actively shape it back. Click to read Product Lost by @hipcityreg, by Reggie James, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
An emotional scrapbook of the Internet. Click to read default.blog, by Katherine Dee, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Learning to build living software. Click to read Squishy Computer, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here. Click to read Numb at the Lodge, by Sam Kriss, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
On the business, strategy, and impact of technology.
Jay Springett is a writer, podcaster, and strategist. An early voice in Solarpunk and expert on world running, he explores technology and internet culture.
Deep dives into crypto and web3: what does the past of tech, culture, and economics tell us about their future? Click to read Three quarks, by David Phelps, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Notes from the collision of meatspace and the internet. Click to read Kneeling Bus, by Drew Austin, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
A channel for Very Internet Persons to discuss net culture, intermedia, and having fun online
Thank you again for reading and enjoying Folklore. If you have recommendations for newsletters, please let us know. We value diversity of writing and perspective and are constantly looking for fresh takes on our social realities (IRL and URL).
Not a member yet? Join here:
https://zora.co/collections/0x30fbfb1416803b3e46d82811ce7aea0a21af12ce/
We’ve curated over 200 articles over the past nine months and some trends are beginning to appear. Specifically, we can look back and understand the primary sources of our readings, as well as the overarching theme.
Back in August 2022, when Folklore initially launched, I described the curation as “a unique intersection of content combining community, internet lorecraft, and human relationships in the digital realm”.
It turns out that Folklore’s curation can best be described as an exploration of The Digital Humanities.
Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities, as well as the analysis of their application.
Wikipedia
From GPT, the voice of Kafka:
In the shadowy realm where old manuscripts slumber, the digital humanities emerged as a metamorphosed being, fusing ancient wisdom with computational precision. This peculiar entity reached out to literature, history, and the arts, weaving an intricate web to unveil their secrets through a machine's gaze.
The labyrinth of data, once obscured, was traversed by this hybrid, exposing patterns and connections long hidden. An existential unease enveloped onlookers, contemplating the implications of such a transformation. The metamorphosis revealed the complexity of human thought and the inexorable advance of technology.
*ChatGPT4, Kafka on the Digital Humanities
At Folklore, curation is simple:
Browse Twitter
Browse Discord
Save articles in a backlog
Select daily content from the backlog
Content is chosen based on writing quality, diversity of source, and personal taste. In general, the content at Folklore leans towards technologies influencing interpersonal human connection today: crypto, artificial intelligence, social media, and other algorithmic technologies.
Overall, the content is sourced from communities, editorial publications, and secondary references.
Each community included here has their own crowdsourced curation. If you like Folklore, you will likely enjoy the people, conversations, and curation within each of these communities:
Our Discord serves as a living archive and experimental forum where members sense make, propose collaborations, and share work-in-progress. The forum is structured around our main research channels: 𓀬collective-bodies ∞intelligences 𓏖planetary 𓏃new-economies 𓏞play-and-mechanics 𓆲politics 𓁺aesthetics ▝▞
Dirt is a daily(ish) newsletter about the cutting edge of digital pop culture. Every week we send out multiple insightful short essays on topics like streaming, TikTok, video games, and web3, from a rotating group of critics.
The Yak Collective is an online space for collaborative tinkering.
welcome to the 0xSalon ::: event series, residency programme, epistemic skunkworks
In addition, there are a series of online publications which have excellent and compelling content. Here are a few that are constantly nurturing influential content:
Real Life was a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis was more on living. To find out more about us, click here. To find out more about our contributors, click here. Real Life was made possible by funding from Snap, Inc., and we operated with editorial independence and without ads.
Noema is a magazine exploring the transformations sweeping our world. We publish essays, reporting, interviews, videos and art on the overlapping realms of philosophy, governance, geopolitics, economics, technology and culture. In doing so, our unique approach is to get out of the usual lanes and cross disciplines, professions, social silos, political tribes and cultural boundaries.
Applied Research
Palladium is a San Francisco-based non-partisan publication that explores the future of governance and society through international journalism, long-form analysis, and social philosophy.
Galaxy brain speculations and vibin out.
FWB - Editorial
Finally, there are a few newsletters that constantly publish excellent thought pieces and link out to interesting sources (check the links and footnotes):
This is not a collection of links and news recaps. This is a critical exploration of what is happening in our technological environments, how it shapes us, and how we actively shape it back. Click to read Product Lost by @hipcityreg, by Reggie James, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
An emotional scrapbook of the Internet. Click to read default.blog, by Katherine Dee, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Learning to build living software. Click to read Squishy Computer, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here. Click to read Numb at the Lodge, by Sam Kriss, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
On the business, strategy, and impact of technology.
Jay Springett is a writer, podcaster, and strategist. An early voice in Solarpunk and expert on world running, he explores technology and internet culture.
Deep dives into crypto and web3: what does the past of tech, culture, and economics tell us about their future? Click to read Three quarks, by David Phelps, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Notes from the collision of meatspace and the internet. Click to read Kneeling Bus, by Drew Austin, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
A channel for Very Internet Persons to discuss net culture, intermedia, and having fun online
Thank you again for reading and enjoying Folklore. If you have recommendations for newsletters, please let us know. We value diversity of writing and perspective and are constantly looking for fresh takes on our social realities (IRL and URL).
Not a member yet? Join here:
https://zora.co/collections/0x30fbfb1416803b3e46d82811ce7aea0a21af12ce/
FolkloreThe Balkanization & Babelification of the Internet
Welcome to Folklore, a community exploring the labyrinth of networked worlds. In this commissioned essay, Rue Yi and Ruby Justice Thelot explore the nature and consequence of our diverging online spaces. Rue talks into their screen in a room in Toronto. They keep a green hardback journal with them in case any good ideas want to make themselves known in the shape of daydreams. Ruby is a designer, cyberethnographer and artist. He is the founder of 13101401 Inc. and Adjunct Professor of Design a...
FolkloreThe $DEGEN Archives
Folklore has a mission to explore and understand our evolving digital worlds. Today, we’re happy to dive into the $DEGEN memecoin – a crypto-native fungible digital asset, tied to a social media meme – that emerged within the most recent break-out web 3 consumer social protocol called Farcaster. Before diving in, a note of gratitude to Bountycaster, for enabling us to find the right person to document $DEGEN. Tips and earnings from this post will be split among those that submitted essays for...
FolkloreHow to Repair a Spaceport: A metaphor for our technological present
Welcome to Folklore, a community exploring the labyrinth of networked worlds. In this newly-commissioned essay, Kei Kreutler reflects on standardization and technological interoperability through the metaphor of the fictional spaceport. Kei’s work explores how cultural narratives of technology shape what worlds we can build.No one knows how to repair a spaceport. This is because spaceports primarily exist as a fiction. Spaceports imply the existence of inter-Solar System, if not intergalactic...
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