robots, hucksters, and slang-parrots
My TikTok NPC essay captures the full phenomenon of our Internet crisis: influencers are taking on slavish, robotic personas to feed the dope-addled masses who want endlessly looping catch phrases.
Robots, hucksters, dope, and slang-parrots translates:
technological automation;
marketing, sales, influencers, etc.;
incentives that promote addiction, and;
mindlessness around language.
“The other kind of growth.” This is a title idea for an essay or book on the challenge of a Kunstlerroman (a story about a developing artist) within the high-pressure and incentive-warped landscape of the Internet. This came after reading a few pages on “The Death of the Artist” (or something like that) which featured an honest interview with
... See moreJevon's paradox is the observation that as you make things more available and efficient demand for those things goes UP.
Examples: 1) Fuel efficiency advances in the 70s and 80s created the monster SUVs and Trucks of today full of features that use MORE fuel. 2) The cotton gin was though to use cotton so efficiently that slavery would be abolished.
... See moreUFO footage from totality is trending on X (meaning: the shadow of a plane projected onto a cloud). I noticed 3 back-to-back messages that are syntactically identical. All posts have since been deleted. I think thees messages are designed as bait to bring you to a profile, but then removed for fear of being caught as robot spam:
POST 1:
