We're in our slop era
The publication-less internet is an absolute Petri dish of idiotic shit, and for every Discourse Blog or Defector (pretty good, trying our best, really just want to give people good and true things to read) there is a far larger and angrier The Free Press (doing a low-effort 2010 Fox News impression in service of the same general goal of bigotry), ... See more
Jack Crosbie • Soon Will Come a Day That None of This Exists
I came of age in the Napster days, when only fools spent money on anything digital. Early on, we decided that we’d rather pay for the internet with attention instead of money. This seemed like a good idea at the time, and at first, it was!
It was like having a big party sponsored by Mazda, and all that meant was having the Mazda logo on the Solo cu... See more
It was like having a big party sponsored by Mazda, and all that meant was having the Mazda logo on the Solo cu... See more
Adam Mastroianni • The Slop School of Internet Success and other lies about cyberspace
In its desperate hunger for clicks, much of the media has decided to endorse a maximalist interpretation of what AI might do. I’ve cataloged them before: disrupt every industry, eliminate poverty and need, send us off of into the stars, end death. Or, alternatively, threaten everything we’ve built, provoke dystopia, exterminate humanity. Take your ... See more