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You Can Handle the Post-Truth: A Pocket Guide to the Surreal Internet
I suspect we humans do better with constraints; the Internet stripped away the constraint of physical distribution, and now AI is removing the constraint of needing to actually produce content. That this is spoiling the Internet is perhaps the best hope for finding our way back to what is real. Let the virtual world be one of customized content for... See more
Stratechery by Ben Thompson • Regretful Accelerationism
Conspiratorial thinking is no longer just for the tinfoil-hat crowd. The very structure of the internet encourages a kind of hyper-paranoia, where every piece of content feels like it’s leading somewhere bigger.
The way platforms serve us information—fractured, unpredictable, contextless—creates a feeling of constant destabilisation. What’s real?... See more
The way platforms serve us information—fractured, unpredictable, contextless—creates a feeling of constant destabilisation. What’s real?... See more
The schizo-fication of the online world
As digital immersion replaces the environmental detachment typical of literacy, perception-based knowing displaces conception-based knowledge. Subjective experience—even feelings—is celebrated as the source of undeniable truth, while objective truth is rejected.