Wrote about how Telegram is basically now the official app for planning a coup…but really how it's kind of the perfect app for the chaos of the 2020s in general
@cwarzel
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We Didn’t Start the Fire Part 2: AI Edition Goes Viral
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holy shit i thought everyone was joking about the 'we didn't start the fire' part 2 thing.
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Twitter Culture Under Musk: Platform Moderation Concerns
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twitter is a lot of things but this is a decent screenshot to show just how unhinged certain corners have grown in the Musk era
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AI-Generated Content and Creative Credits: A Growing Mindset Shift
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a great example of the genuinely weird mindset i've been obsessing about! https://
theatlantic.com/technology/arc
hive/2023/06/ai-hbo-max-content-creator-movie-credits/674295/
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Normalizing AI Problems: When Criticism Becomes Expected
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even feeling sheepish abt tweeting this is an effect of how pervasive the feeling is. ppl being like, ‘this isn’t new my guy’ – yeah exactly. now it’s so expected that it’s cringey to even point it out. the subtext is like, dude just learn to take it like the rest of us lol
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Big Tech destroying culture: powerlessness in digital age
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the end result is just a feeling of powerlessness that is extra present and entrenched in every facet of participating in life. there was a good tweet i can’t find that a unifying part of being alive now is a shitty rich person buying and destroying something you like. true!
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Wealth as Ideological Tool: The Rise of ‘Fuck You Money’ Culture
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i think this is right! and there’s definitely a literalization of this old concept that we see now (and tons of people who *love* to watch people use their “fuck you money” to own their ideological enemies)
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Tech Companies Compromising Ethics for Financial Gain
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not saying there’s some golden age of business or anything but i think the last decade has been a real rise of this mentality – this platform being a v small example of when the $ is just too good & you cant say no so you have to get in bed with somebody who has disdained for you
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Corporate Shamelessness and Outrage Fatigue in Modern Economics
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the ‘late stage capitalism’ line is kinda unhelpful now in articulating the context of our lives but if there’s 1 quality of it i think it’s just emboldening actors to be as shameless as they want who cares? ppl will move on to the next outrage & also it’s fun to own your enemies
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Tech industry shamelessness about money and power dynamics
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part of me feels like a dipshit for tweeting this bc this has always been the case with money and power (and glossing it over isn’t exactly better) but the shift in the packaging of it all feels notable. there’s just a shamelessness – who cares about seeming craven/hypocritical?!