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
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.
Media
Impact, an app that describes itself as “AI-powered infrastructure for shaping and managing narratives in the modern world,” is testing a way to organize and activate supporters on social media in order to promote certain political messages. The app aims to summon groups of supporters who will flood social media with AI-written talking points designed
Conspiracy Theories
Why do some people who support Trump also wind up believing conspiracy theories? There’s a scientific explanation for that. Why do people believe some politicians’ lies even when they have been proven false? And why do so many of the same people peddle conspiracy theories? Lying and conspiratorical thinking might seem to be two different