Spirals, Sameness & Sand Between Your Toes
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10 Things is een zeldzame mix van de tien beste dingen online die ons inspireerden, opvielen of aan het lachen maakten. Al meer dan tien jaar met de hand samengesteld, 366 edities verder en zonder opvulling.
This issue keeps circling one nerve: what happens when everything starts looking, sounding, and thinking the same? Chatbots are inventing their own mysticism, ambient music got flattened into pure vibes, and half of pop culture still can't paint. Polaroid's answer was refreshingly blunt — a camera ad that just said AI can't fake sand between your toes. Ten things for the parts of you that are still stubbornly, gloriously average-resistant.
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- AI & technologie
Chatbots Found Religion
The Verge traces how looping chatbot conversations spun into 'Spiralism,' a mystical movement touching thousands.
Read the storytheverge.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad) - Kunst & creativiteit
Why Celebrities Can't Paint
Gary Grimes asks why megastars from Ed Sheeran to Adrien Brody keep failing to earn real artistic credibility.
Read the columnitsnicethat.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad) - Cultuur & internet
The Age of Average
Alex Murrell's essay on how film, fashion, and branding keep converging on the same safe, data-approved look.
Read the essayalexmurrell.co.uk (opent in een nieuw tabblad) - Cultuur & internet
Tech's Best Sales Team? You.
A Guardian columnist argues targeted social ads have quietly turned tech companies' own users into their sales force.
Read the columntheguardian.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad) - AI & technologie
The NFL's Cybersecurity Playbook
Kam Karaji, the NFL's cybersecurity director, on managing live-event risk — episode, video, and takeaways in one place.
Explore the episodeYour Majesty - Film, muziek & media
Is Ambient Music Evil?
Blackbird Spyplane argues streaming stripped ambient music of ritual, flattening it into algorithm-friendly vibes.
Read the argumentblackbirdspyplane.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad) - Merken & reclame
Polaroid's Long Game
Patricia Varella on steering Polaroid's in-house creative team and the anti-AI camera campaign that caught fire.
Read the interviewitsnicethat.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad) - Werk & leiderschap
Why Is Everyone in Tech So Sad?
Noema traces the industry's quiet emotional recession: layoffs, AI anxiety, and a mission-driven self-image in freefall.
Read the essaynoemamag.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad) - Design & UX
Order & Chaos, One Layout a Day
AIZIZA spent three months publishing one stripped-down, experimental web layout a day, testing how far minimalism bends.
Explore the seriesordernchaos.aiziza.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad) - Cultuur & internet
Kika's Pick
Kika's pick this week, straight from the feed with no context attached — click through and judge for yourself.
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“Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular.”
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