i do believe that with everything that is going on, it will be really important for each artist to have their own place where they can build their own world. the first iteration of mine is now live. most of the things i’m going to experiment with will be added as single pieces to the puzzle i’m designing with the hidden i. i’m planning to take it irl as well. the zine i am working on is the first embodiment of that.🌹https://thehiddeni.com/

blaming ai for giving birth to slop is wrong. imo slop came to life the moment we started treating everything in our lives as content. or the moment we were forced to. for example the idea that people are being watched is what gave birth to “acting”, not the camera or the tv.🌹

the reason i love finite things is that finitude is what makes you intentional about the time you spend with something. it ends. we scroll endlessly because there's no "end" to content. we can consume as much as we want. but if we were given only 10 posts a day, i think we'd be more careful with what we consume, and how we scroll and that limit might be what helps us care again.🌹

have you ever been part of a group chat that started inviting more people in, and it suddenly lost all meaning for you? that's one of the best examples, to me, of how something scaled beyond what it was designed for loses the reason it existed in the first place🌹

what digital media taught me is that if the culture isn't ready for something, it won't get adopted. the infrastructure for digital ownership has been here for a long time, but it only has value to a handful of people. we're still not past the phase of paying for something you can "own" for free.🌹

testing cross-posting on farcaster and lens from arke by @arjantupan 🌹

if we keep creating things that extract value instead of creating it, i'm afraid we'll never be able to move on from the things we hate which are the ones we have now.🌹

i believe we've never cared less about anything than we do now, and i used to believe it was fewness that made me care, but it wasn't, it was actually the care itself, and i believe limits may be one of the only ways we can still preserve care in a world that wants to turn everything into something to be consumed. but at the same time, one can still choose to stop consuming something even without any scarcity, and to me, that is the ideal i wish existed🌹https://thehiddeni.substack.com/p/how-do-we-create-limits-that-help

if we turn everything into content what parts of our life are still ours if every moment is pre-shaped by how it might be seen?🌹

imo the real power of a curator is emotional intelligence. the algorithm shows a flood of things on the feed, but only we can decide what's true and more importantly what's true to us. i'd also say emotional intelligence is a core influence on taste.🌹