Good Is Out, Evil Is in ♞
What’s clear is that people are fed up with the infrastructure we have and will do anything to break free from it.
Nick Houde • Good Is Out, Evil Is in ♞
Masks are off in 2025. After years of virtue signalling, hopes for progressive politics, waves of inclusivity programs, and community-oriented messaging, the do-good era of being online is now over.
Nick Houde • Good Is Out, Evil Is in ♞
Traits traditionally coded as “right” or “left” or “good” or “progress” are now being thrown together in strange mixtures based on subcultural affiliations often gestated online.
Nick Houde • Good Is Out, Evil Is in ♞
Social media incentivized more extreme views at the same time that China began to develop an entirely different internet that, unlike the Western internet, was built on the values expressed by the state.
Nick Houde • Good Is Out, Evil Is in ♞
to the Dark Forest of the internet; off mainline socials where their speech and behavior was broadcast to anyone and into small niche communities on invite-only forums, p2p networks, and group chats.
Nick Houde • Good Is Out, Evil Is in ♞
What is happening now in the US (the soft power of Silicon Valley teaming up with the hard power of President Trump) does not herald a new world order on its own. It’s the West following suit into a new fragmented world order that the rest of the world has already been moving towards years before by architecting its infrastructure around cultural a
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This is as much a problem of platform logic as it is of political economy: Reactionary outrage begets clickrates, which begets attention and reach especially when the people running these media platforms are themselves largely sympathetic to reactionary beliefs.
Nick Houde • Good Is Out, Evil Is in ♞
• Brands and platforms emerge that propose a new economic model for creatives, a clear codex of what is good and bad within their system, a moral compass, such as Metalabel or Subvert.
• Crypto goes deeper into the Right-coded direction of Bitcoinmaxxies, memecoin grifters and anti-government types. While Ethereum, the more pro-social / governance e
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Going dark is one strategy of the savvy and privileged.