Is this the highwater mark of X?
Given the recent dramas touched off by Elon in the last 2 weeks, with likely more to come, one thing worth noting is that any ambitions of turning X into the Western version of WeChat are now utterly kaput. WeChat,…
Category Internet Culture
A Theory of Slop and Brain Rot
It can be fun to define new words we’ve all heard here and there, so here’s mine: Slop (noun) Media produced to exploit the content recommendations algorithms of social media websites. Usually pejorative. Slop content is not intrinsically different to…
Why I’m Cheerful About The “Dead Internet” Theory And Generative AI
The “Dead Internet” theory suggests that much of the internet, especially content generated after 2016-2017, is not created by humans but by bots, AI, and other automated systems. It claims that most online interactions, social media posts, and even comments…