Forwarded from Meme Research
Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore
Dec 2023 - Charlie Warzel
You are currently logged on to the largest version of the internet that has ever existed. By clicking and scrolling, you’re one of the 5 billion–plus people contributing to an unfathomable array of networked information—quintillions of bytes produced each day.
The sprawl has become disorienting. Some of my peers in the media have written about how the internet has started to feel “placeless” and more ephemeral, even like it is “evaporating.” Perhaps this is because, as my colleague Ian Bogost has argued, “the age of social media is ending,” and there is no clear replacement. Or maybe artificial intelligence is flooding the internet with synthetic information and killing the old web. Behind these theories is the same general perception: Understanding what is actually happening online has become harder than ever.
https://archive.ph/1KNgD
Dec 2023 - Charlie Warzel
You are currently logged on to the largest version of the internet that has ever existed. By clicking and scrolling, you’re one of the 5 billion–plus people contributing to an unfathomable array of networked information—quintillions of bytes produced each day.
The sprawl has become disorienting. Some of my peers in the media have written about how the internet has started to feel “placeless” and more ephemeral, even like it is “evaporating.” Perhaps this is because, as my colleague Ian Bogost has argued, “the age of social media is ending,” and there is no clear replacement. Or maybe artificial intelligence is flooding the internet with synthetic information and killing the old web. Behind these theories is the same general perception: Understanding what is actually happening online has become harder than ever.
https://archive.ph/1KNgD
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Going cashless is a bad idea, but it’s not a conspiracy | Aeon Essays
https://aeon.co/essays/going-cashless-is-a-bad-idea-but-its-not-a-conspiracy
https://aeon.co/essays/going-cashless-is-a-bad-idea-but-its-not-a-conspiracy
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Going cashless is a bad idea, but it’s not a conspiracy | Aeon Essays
It’s not in the interests of the ordinary person but it’s not a conspiracy either. A cashless society is a system run amok
Forwarded from You’ve just been fucked by PSYOP
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