Tag: Analysis


  • SLOP MASTER: A CONFESSION AND A CONFRONTATION

    I’m officially outing myself. I am a Slop Master… Introduction I bit my tongue. That’s the pathetic truth of it. A family member was holding court about “AI slop”; how it’s ruining the internet, how it’s lazy, how it’s not real creativity. And I just sat there. Didn’t say a word. Didn’t mention that I’ve…

  • Section 230 Gave Us Facebook. Now Facebook is Giving Us Fascism.

    Why banning surveillance advertising is the regulatory wedge that could actually work Picture Mark Zuckerberg sitting in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, April 10th 2018, looking like a confused android trying to process human emotion. For hours, senators lobbed questions at him. Some informed, most painfully not. Then Senator Orrin Hatch, 84 years old…

  • THE DATA ISN’T YOURS. YOU’RE THE DATA.

    You didn’t download the app. The app downloaded you. The second you tapped “Allow,” you handed over more than location access. You gave it your patterns, your micro-delays, your insomnia cycles, your porn breaks, your heart rate, your heartbreak.

  • Notification Predation: Why Your Phone Wants Your Soul

    By someone who knows exactly how many unread notifications are on their wife’s phone, and it’s a war crime. Welcome to the Pingocalypse Congratulations. If you’re reading this, you’ve survived at least 60 seconds without checking a group chat, a Doordash badge, or that suspiciously enthusiastic poop tracker update (“Now with urine analysis!”). Your ability…