Their faith in memetic culture had been shaken. It wasn’t selecting for quality but for ease of assimilation into preëxisting blocs.

I first stumbled upon the term in Johannes Kuhn's great newsletter. Then i finally started reading the New Yorker article by Gideon Lewis-Kraus about Nadia and i saw Artnet and went to the Dark Forrest Collective where i saw Lil Internet. And here is the book. 

So after realizing that "It was foolish to hope that the radical and anarchic expansion of the public sphere—“adding more voices to a room”—would prove out our talent for collective reasoning" she considers herself one of many “refugees fleeing memetic contagion"

Cuteness is always too cute. It’s always  so cute I could die.

Yes, let's agree to disagree

I hope it is okay to screenshot this conversation even if it is out there in the open. Dylan has written a Defense of AI Slop and while i still have not yet come to a final conclusion i am interested in the ongoing debate. Bookmark for later. Okay. 

Another way to look at the vibe shift is as a more fundamental shift to “vibes” as the unit of political analysis

There is more in the New Yorker article mentioned above. Just quoting here: "Recent discourse attending to a “vibe shift” has tended to emphasize a renewed acceptance, even in erstwhile liberal circles, of obnoxious or retrograde cultural attitudes—the removal of taboos, say, on certain slurs. Another way to look at the vibe shift is as a more fundamental shift to “vibes” as the unit of political analysis—an acknowledgment, on the part of liberals, that their initial response to an informational crisis had been inadequate and hypocritical. The vibe shift has been criticized as a soft-headed preference for mystical interpretation in place of empirical inquiry. But a vibe is just a technique of compression. A near-infinite variety of inputs is reduced to a single bit of output: YES or NO, FOR or AGAINST. It had been close, but the vibe shift was just the concession that AGAINST had prevailed." Okay.