Capitalism
depends on who is controlling legacy media’s last feeble news fronts. E.G. Jeff Bezo’s supine Washington Post or social media apes with megaphones standing in public squares shouting unsubstantiated rumors at babies and showing pornographic photos to children. The world believes what rich men want it to.
Culture
Let’s stop talking about the failures of mainstream media. In our fractured media landscape, mainstream media has become irrelevant. Because media and information have gone from scarce to abundant, the ability of governments to control a narrative is gone. In this world of fractured media there is always incentive, and ability tom show what is
Advertising
LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions. LG TVs will soon leverage an AI model built for showing advertisements that more closely align with viewers’ personal beliefs and emotions. The company plans to incorporate a partner company’s AI tech into its TV software in order to interpret psychological factors
Enshittifcation
The rapid spread of memes, trends, and corporate jargon on social media has led to a homogenization of online communication, making it difficult to distinguish original content and creating a sense of constant noise. The enshittifcation of social media, particularly due to its speed and virality, has led to millions vying for their moment in
Immigration
“Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration” And I thought that the Anti-Robot project was adding noise. The Robot is a silly amateur. All the archived Ice press releases soaring to the top of Google search results were marked with the same
Media
Mediums matter more than content; it’s the common rules that govern all creation and consumption across a medium that change people and society. Oral culture teaches us to think one way, written culture another. Television turned everything into entertainment, and social media taught us to think with the crowd.