More TK

A sharp look at AI’s trillion-dollar boom through exocapitalism, where data centers become financial instruments, and the future of software hangs in the balance.   ​Roberto Alonso Trillo is a Hong Kong–based theorist and artist whose work examines deep learning systems as endosymbiotic reproductive infrastructures, situating technical practice within contemporary political theory.   Marek Poliks...

Any educator will tell you that it’s been a weird time to be in the classroom since LLMs came about—but teachers of creative technology have had a particularly disorienting experience. On the one hand, we embrace new tools and our ability to critique and experiment with them. On the other, these same tools are radically altering what it means to learn, to teach or even be in the classroom at all....

In this episode of More TK, Hugh Francis brings “Where the Flower Grows” to life in a hypnotic reading. Over the past several months, he's been exploring a different kind of future with USB Club. They’ve been sketching out a philosophy for small, air-gapped machines we call local LLMs. Instead of cloud dependence, they’ve been testing what happens when intelligence runs on hardware you can hold, o...

Elie, Hugh and Sam sit down with Michael Adams from CivLab  to discuss his efforts to democratize San Francisco’s 4,000-page government charter. Our convo spans across Michael’s background in the space industry to CivLab’s purpose: Preventing the collapse of self-governing civilization.

In this episode of More TK, Elie Andersen ( @elieilelie ) brings “The Mets Are the Last Thing I Believe In” to life in an intimate reading. It’s a reflection on fandom and faith, on what it means to belong to a city through its symbols, from blue and orange caps to the ferries, delis, and sidewalks that define New York. Read the full article on Substack here. Follow along and join the conversation...

In this episode of More TK, Sam Taylor ( @tohumankind ) brings Survival Theater to life in a dramatized reading. Set in a Love Island villa, it explores culture, labor, and the performances we all take on to survive, from reality TV to LinkedIn, from layoffs to collective experiments in art and work. Read the full article on Substack here. Follow along and join the conversation at @garden3d_net .

We’ve been here before. Plato worried writing would ruin memory. Now professors worry AI will ruin thinking. But maybe outsourcing cognition has always been part of being human. In his new essay,  @_hhff  moves from Hinge date debates about David Lynch and Hayao Miyazaki, through ancient philosophy and cognitive science, to the possibility of a planetary brain. It asks: is AI the end of human thou...