🍩✨The Nexialist #0099

MOTOMAMI Live | AIntertaiment | how will AI change the world? | ai for degrowth | how do we create a better economy? | dreams of a resilient planet | 2023 trend reports | desire | kerosene glitters

Dec 15, 2022

welcome to another week of cyber dream-catching, or The Nexialist

hello, folks! i hope this donut finds you hungry because today i bring you some food for thought, especially around AI and degrowth, and some eyeful videos that will cause you (hopefully) some brainsparks. it’s a quicky nexialist today, enjoy!

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🏍️MOTOMAMI live

last weekend i had the pleasure of seeing Rosalía live on her MOTOMAMI tour. i was completely impressed not only by her talent as a singer/dancer/performer but also by how the whole MOTOMAMI concept ties up together so neatly at the live concert. the stage was shaped like the studio from her TikTok LIVE, and the big screens were transmitting live footage from phones carried by her dancers and a cameraman that was perfectly choreographed with them. it felt so intimate, like the concert was the making of. also, if didn’t feel gimmicky, but actually simple, fun and sophisticated. i left the show more of a fan than before. i saw some posts calling her a Spanish superstar, and with this experience, that cannot be denied.

🍄AIntertaiment

i know i’ve shared quite a few ai-generated music videos here, and i feel like this aesthetic is quickly taking over pop culture. this new video by PNAU and Troye Sivan is so impressive. it’s like a moving painting, and each frame has so many details. it does not matter how many times you watch it, there will always be new freaky details that you didn’t see before. it’s quite hypnotizing. kudos to MELT, the creative studio behind it.

🤖how will AI change the world?

the latest TED-Ed animations are just beyond this world. this one takes parts from the Radio Davos podcast about ‘the promises and perils of AI’ with Stuart Russell, a computer science professor and AI expert. put it on fullscreen and enjoy:

In the coming years, artificial intelligence is probably going to change your life— and likely the entire world. But people have a hard time agreeing on exactly how AI will affect our society. Can we build AI systems that help us fix the world? Or are we doomed to a robotic takeover? Explore the limitations of artificial intelligence and the possibility of creating human-compatible technology.

🌍ai for degrowth

Thomas Klaffke from the Creative Destruction newsletter is already an habitué here at The Nexialist. this week i just loved his experiment with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Dall-E, in a kind of collaborative brainstorming to create “a food startup that champions the principles of degrowth.” ChatGPT helped with the concept, slogan, a step-by-step business plan, and Dall-E helped with the imagery. it’s worth reading his post and the complete file. this just shows the potential of AI, not to do the work for you, but as an engine for the imagination, as they put it recently. i can’t wait to play with it and experiment for other projects.

read: Building A Degrowth Food Startup With Artificial Intelligence

🍩how do we create a better economy?

the algorithmic synchronicity this week was that the other TED-Ed animation recommended right after AI is also about degrowth. this one is based on snippets from the TED Interview podcast with Kate Raworth, the mother (?) of doughnut economy theory and someone i deeply admire. the illustrations are again an eyeful and it makes me want to live in it. so now put your fullscreen to work and open your mind.

Can we call any economy “healthy” in the face of dwindling resources and growing inequality? What if we cut off our addiction to endless growth, and used a new compass for modern prosperity? One such compass is known as “doughnut economics,” which aims to meet the needs of people without overshooting Earth's ecological limits. Explore how this model reframes our economic systems.

🌎dreams of a resilient planet

thank you, Gustavo, for sharing this. you might have noticed my obsession with solarpunk, since I have posted about it quite a few times. here, Viraj Joshi does an imagination exercise with three new punk genres; cyclopunk, covertpunk, macropunk.

‘Dreams of a Resilient Planet’ puts forward three new -punk genres to help think of a better tomorrow, following traditions of classics like Cyberpunk, and Solarpunk. Like any other ideas of utopias or dystopias, we can see hints of these genres hidden in plain sight around us.

-Punk genres are characterised by individuals acting against systems by taking matters in their own hands. What are the systems around us that we might want to act against for a better planet? What is something small that we already do now that we should be doing more of?

🔭2023 trend reports

i will always be thankful for the folks who take the time to aggregate the upcoming year’s reports. it brings a sense of organization and FOMO at the same time. no, i will not read all of them, but at least looking at a lot of them in the same place helps me decide which ones I want to see. enjoy!

🏝️desire

i know i posted this song here last week, but now there is a video and i just love it. also, the name of her new album coming next February is “Desire, I Want To Turn Into You" and i think it sounds so beautiful.

✨kerosene glitters

another work of algorithms, kerosin95, was shown to me by Spotify: german, queer artist with well produced videos and tracks, it’s certainly the kind of stuff i enjoy. unfortunately, i just learned the project is on hold, but there are some quite fun tracks and videos to enjoy.

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