Digital reversals are cultural and ideological turnarounds caused by the digital sped-up of human interactions. Read The Digital Reversal—the entire book is written in tweets (1,295 of them), the first “tweetise” in history, a reversal of the treatise. https://t.co/ue1eWZpEBS

Put any opposite or adjacent categories into this pattern, and you'll get a whole new realm of meanings. The divide between life and death is a mistake. The divide between men and women is a mistake. The divide between football and soccer is a mistake.

The Digital Reversal is #4 in Amazon Best Sellers, category Digital Media. In a strange group: #1. AI Prompts Book Magic #2. Kindle Rewords Redeem Guide #3. Astrophotography Image Processing #4. The Digital Reversal, very practical, too! #5. Minecraft: Medieval Fortress

We know how the epistemic authority of science, or even of Wikipedia, was formed. How will AI shape its epistemic authority, especially after the human share in it decreases? How do we build “epistemic trust,” as Granata calls it, with AI? This is the issue humankind will face

Very interesting: digital orality and stock market behavior. 1) social media circulate info in a way that favors the formation of bubbles, regardless of financial conditions; 2) the technologies for speculation are perfected - it has never been easier to speculate. @TheStalwart

Because under capitalism you worked for yourself, for profit or salary. Less alienation from the product. (Alas, poor Marx, I knew him.) Under socialism, you worked for nothing (the outcome didn’t matter to you), so people sought legitimate ways not to work while at work. Smoke.

Very interesting: digital orality and stock market behavior. 1) social media circulate info in a way that favors the formation of bubbles, regardless of financial conditions; 2) the technologies for speculation are perfected - it has never been easier to speculate. @TheStalwart

Great take. There’s a lot of nostalgia-soaked cigarette aesthetics that is superficially capitalist. But it’s really about modernism. *Everything rationally allocated to the right place and right time* Vapes and pouches have no place and time and are line-blurring technologies.

Cigarettes are also socialist - they legitimized a work break for smoking under the Soviet rule (those not smoking kept working). Vape cannot do that - it has no “duration.” (Truth, though, is that socialism WAS the highest stage of modernism, completing the modernist logic of

Cigarettes are also socialist - they legitimized a work break for smoking under the Soviet rule (those not smoking kept working). Vape cannot do that - it has no “duration.” (Truth, though, is that socialism WAS the highest stage of modernism, completing the modernist logic of

We know how the epistemic authority of science, or even of Wikipedia, was formed. How will AI shape its epistemic authority, especially after the human share in it decreases? How do we build “epistemic trust,” as Granata calls it, with AI? This is the issue humankind will face

Having long surpassed the human level, AI now learns from the rules of the game itself. And this is not just about chess or Go; LLM learns not from humans but from language itself. We humans just diligently supply what we must: speech. 2/2 https://t.co/tPnmsWDqXP

AI has only just emerged and is developing at an incredible pace. We humans, by contrast, are a long-evolved species that has likely reached its full cognitive potential. AI begins where we have arrived. 1/2

@PaulLev In McLuhan’s logic: what does ultimate human replay reverse? Into what? This logic dictates: Human replay, reaching its ultimate form, must reverse into human replacement. 4/4 https://t.co/wjADcAPjxm

@PaulLev In McLuhan’s logic: what does ultimate human replay reverse? Into what? This logic dictates: Human replay, reaching its ultimate form, must reverse into human replacement. 4/4 https://t.co/wjADcAPjxm

@PaulLev Media replay us in the environment—or the environments for us—in an increasingly natural-like fashion. What will be the ultimate form of human replay? 3/4 https://t.co/wjADcAPjxm

@PaulLev In the 1970s, when Paul pondered this idea, the closest approximation for a holistic human replay was the hologram. Now we know that holistic perception is best replayed in virtual reality, but also by a social media persona, and now by a large language model—generative AI, which

In his three stages of media evolution, @PaulLev clearly describes the growing success of media in replaying humans more and more coherently, “holistically,” and seamlessly, leading to replaying the entire sensorium, not just isolated functions. 1/3

Generating knowledge with AI: Epistemic partnership? A review of @paologranata’s “Generative Knowledge: Think, Learn, Create with AI” (2025). https://t.co/tPnmsWDqXP

More Harry Potter's characters, if written by Dostoevsky. (Created by Midjourney AI. It's certainly a new level of... pattern recognition)