I'm beginning to notice my own attention and literacy slip a bit. Reading takes more effort. Novels are harder to follow because I'm not used to nuanced storytelling. I only glaze through articles online. I'm not deep-focus reading as much as I used to when I was younger, or rather, prior to owning a smartphone.

That said I'm exploring ways to get the casual reading back to a healthy level, limit screentime as a proxy for waiting, and get back to deep focus reading.

One way of doing that is...

Inspired by this post:https://www.instagram.com/p/DVtnBnskwT1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

In short, an artist starts to embrace AI tools and gets a better grasp of how using said tools influences your thinking.

I'm curious if there are other artist here that faced the same dilemmma she did, and tried to make something with the tools instead of just dreading them.

Does art...

I have a 07 r1200gs and an 02 Honda Goldwing. I love the experience of riding as well as the people you meet on two wheels.

Not only is it somatic therapy, but the bikes are way more fuel efficient than my truck so it's cheaper to get around when the weather is good.

Also, motorcycles have always been punk. Hell most of our cyberpunk media includes a motorcycle somewhere. You could argue Harley's are so establishment they aren't punk but that's another conversation.

Anyone else want to ride...

Just discovered a few cool sites I thought I'd share on here:

• https://alivetheory.net/
  A really interesting "art project"???? Not sure what to call it but the overall goal seems similar to cyberspace.online initiative but from a different perspective

• https://annehero.neocities.org/blog
  Anne Hero is a cool artist/curator who has been commissioning Jungle Mixtapes for quite some time. She has a...

Can cyberpunk be purchased?

I remember roaming the net in the early 2000's and coming across cool battlestations netizens had built. I remember seeing one from an eastern european fella with multiple flat screens and crt's and keyboards strewn about. If memory serves, he had cobbled his collection of pc's and monitors together out of whatever he could find as high end pc exports to his country were limited.

I thought his set up was so cool. I wanted to forage for parts and put together a...