# Best of zine.zora.co on Kiwi News Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/source/zine.zora.co 10 stories from zine.zora.co have been shared on Kiwi News since 30 June 2023, with 23 upvotes and 0 comments in total. The latest was shared on 30 December 2023. They are listed below, most upvoted first. Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article. ## 1. Fanfiction after AI - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Fanfiction-after-AI?index=0x65000931acef2075718d950f739761deb7d6e3556ff3be0b4765e40e2199d7c8ca4a2ab4 - Source: https://zine.zora.co/fanfiction-after-ai - Shared 12 September 2023, 6 upvotes, 0 comments Fan communities are pushing back against AI writing tools, which they say were trained on fanfiction scraped without consent, and the article examines why fans see this as a threat to participatory culture. According to the company, SudoWrite uses several variants of GPT-3, a model by OpenAI that Elon Musk co-founded and later left. In December 2022, Tumblr user and fanfic writer Vanya responded by archive-locking all their work, and that post has 76,990 notes. The article argues that fans, who create largely unpaid derivative work out of love and community, are unlikely to stop writing because of AI, citing fandom analyst Destination Toast. ## 2. Lorecore - The Story of You - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Lorecore-The-Story-of-You?index=0x64a22ffbb7d4b7cc93361456d2f2227afdbd607496b4fda1609c7c1300d1cc98341075c3 - Source: https://zine.zora.co/the-lexicon-of-lorecore-shumon-basar - Shared 3 July 2023, 4 upvotes, 0 comments Lorecore is proposed as a neologism for an era of digital capitalism in which people feel an existential need to storify themselves just as global narratives collapse. The article, a Curator-in-Residence piece for ZINE, presents a lexicon of invented terms such as Reality Lag, Doom Mood Advantage and Non-Fungible Trauma as a toolkit for describing this experience. It states that new feelings and realities demand new words, and that language helps people feel less alone with abstract emotions. Several entries are tagged with the phrase "Mint here," suggesting they could be collected as NFTs. ## 3. Automating Reality – ZORA ZINE - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Automating-Reality-ZORA-ZINE?index=0x658fda5b993902cb2c3738b39a2da48c2d3bfdbeaeb9362071eb57329847f48e9e44e8aa - Source: https://zine.zora.co/automating-reality-matthew-donovan - Shared 30 December 2023, 2 upvotes, 0 comments This essay argues that simulated reality has become more convincing than before, so that people now live inside an automated, ambient digital environment that erodes identity and privacy. It names Baudrillard's 1980s theories as an earlier warning and cites Paul Virilio's 1994 book The Vision Machine, which described a world dominated by synthetic vision and surveillance cameras. The author also describes a new "digital drift" in which highly online youth blur material and virtual reality, and links this to a broader sense of powerlessness among people on the fringes of society. ## 4. She's Evil, Most Definitely Subliminal – ZORA ZINE - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Shes-Evil-Most-Definitely-Subliminal-ZORA-ZINE?index=0x6589491627ad54d437669d6432837333087e52da3bd854e06c994f82c04c82f87426ddbc - Source: https://zine.zora.co/shes-evil-most-definitely-subliminal-alex-quicho - Shared 25 December 2023, 2 upvotes, 0 comments Subliminal videos and manifestation practices are a form of DIY brainwashing, reflecting a belief that people's minds are malleable in an otherwise immovable world. Platform algorithms are described as architectures of desire that offer rewards whose returns are diminishing. Louise Hay's affirmations have circulated since the 1990s, and a 2009 UCL study found that negative subliminal messaging had a more immediate impact. A 2019 scandal erupted around creator Mind Power, who was accused of embedding harmful messages below her affirmations. ## 5. Holly Herndon: Epiphany Epiphany Epiphany - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Holly-Herndon-Epiphany-Epiphany-Epiphany?index=0x64f11415b5e62e8faad2ab10d38269cbf6ac4bd13d0f8118b3e942031e4fc69de3af050f - Source: https://zine.zora.co/issue/intergenerational-dynamics/holly-herndon-epiphany-epiphany-epiphany - Shared 31 August 2023, 2 upvotes, 0 comments Simon Denny argues that blockchain and AI can resurface forgotten culture and enable new cross-generational dialogue, citing artist Holly Herndon and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist as examples of networked, generative conversation. Herndon describes her voice as a collective instrument and says her 2015 album Platform anticipated crypto and platform-politics topics, including a track called "DAO" made in 2014. Obrist interviewed Vitalik Buterin for TANK magazine in 2018, and in 2015 he and Denny staged Products for Organising at Serpentine, which included work about Bitcoin. ## 6. Cyborg Consciousness - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Cyborg-Consciousness?index=0x64e66d58423f990519e1847e054ae6820d2bb8932b77860aa934a0fdfb61fa34b172c769 - Source: https://zine.zora.co/mindy-seu-cyberfeminism-index - Shared 23 August 2023, 2 upvotes, 0 comments Mindy Seu, editor of the recently released Cyberfeminism Index, describes cyberfeminism as a critical use of technology, and the book collects more than 700 short entries on the movement's questions about gender and technology. The Index traces how Donna Haraway's 1985 essay "The Cyborg Manifesto" laid groundwork for cyberfeminist themes, including its call to embrace a "cyborg consciousness" that challenges binaries such as male/female and mind/body. In an interview, Seu says platforms shape user behavior toward acceleration and superficiality, and she argues that memes are an important political tool while calling for closer reading. She also rejects the idea that online information has an expiration date and favors intentional, grassroots personal archiving over mass archiving. ## 7. Galen Wolfe-Pauly Doesn’t Want Your Data - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Galen-Wolfe-Pauly-Doesnt-Want-Your-Data?index=0x649f07cecb99f8c2f930971c61cfc8b9c7358d0570a011f9e62063c3dc5b1f46d20770e3 - Source: https://zine.zora.co/urbit-tlon-galen-wolfe-pauly - Shared 30 June 2023, 2 upvotes, 0 comments Galen Wolfe-Pauly, co-founder of Tlon, is building Urbit, a personal server system that lets users run their own apps and services instead of relying on companies such as Google, Facebook, and Apple. He says Urbit developed from a personal project of his former co-founder, with Tlon formed in late 2013 to make it useful. The article reports that Urbit and affiliated projects have received funding from PayPal co-founder and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, and that the number of active users continues to grow. ## 8. Through the Shadowland – ZORA ZINE - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Through-the-Shadowland-ZORA-ZINE?index=0x6589486d386c1f6bc3e4289edd5b734260e683224e895816f9d6bad5a719a11a172497fc - Source: https://zine.zora.co/gunseli-yalcinkaya - Shared 25 December 2023, 1 upvote, 0 comments Zora Zine's essay argues that digital cryptids, such as the AI-generated images Loab and Crungus, are avatars of the unreality people feel online, and that they resemble older legends because their existence rests on collective storytelling. The article says Loab was first noticed when a user named @supercomposite found that certain text-to-image prompts repeatedly produced the same image. Drawing on Lovecraft, Timothy Morton, Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway, it suggests that the hybrid, the weird and the layered online self all make the boundary between real and imagined harder to hold. ## 9. Lorecore: The Final Chapter – ZORA ZINE - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Lorecore-The-Final-Chapter-ZORA-ZINE?index=0x64e0960586cdfa2c98ace9ba245b3c87a48a7f2708dcf13244b311638bb8154ef2cbbb12 - Source: https://zine.zora.co/lorecore-shumon-basar-y7 - Shared 19 August 2023, 1 upvote, 0 comments Y7, a Salford duo specializing in theory and audiovisual work, collaborated with writer Lore on the final chapter of the Lorecore Trilogy, a film made with generative AI. The team began with a script that Y7 fed as prompts into text-to-content models, including Runway's Gen-2, Midjourney's Infinite Zoom and AudioLDM, to produce characters, voices, video, theme music and sound design. The work is presented as an exploration of what Boris Groys calls "the chaos hidden behind the smooth surface" of generative AI, not an attempt to make writing, acting or scoring redundant. The piece was released while Hollywood writers and actors were on strike over fears that studios would use such technology to auto-generate content. ## 10. Everything is purple - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Everything-is-purple?index=0x64a9ab4df44f03b0be56ae9aacb6f8deb9192625ff0ae067a7cddcda16b5ce5bb2b4ac77 - Source: https://zine.zora.co/purple-dao-farcaster - Shared 8 July 2023, 1 upvote, 0 comments Farcaster, a protocol for building decentralized social networks, is presented as a response to platform lock-in, with users owning their data and content and relationships able to move between apps. In an interview with ZINE, co-founder Dan Romero describes the project's open approach as similar to how Linux spread through the technology stack without most users noticing it. Purple DAO, an independent group devoted to building Farcaster tools, was started by Chris Carella and Osama Khan, and Romero says its independence is healthy for Farcaster.