The perverse incentives, deserves to be placed here.
Feb 1, 2026
Slop as meaningless concept
The perverse incentives, deserves to be placed here.
Jan 31, 2026
Why I'm not a himbo
It's more tastelessness now.
So I can't specialise.
Jan 26, 2026
The popular vibes around the personal space
Vibes, or the smaller reaches of the terminally online. When it comes to the masses, It's indicative to note one's own influence and whether it's important to be of governance.
Jan 22, 2026
John S Burges on Prosumerism visual
Media may be a low influence, it's trying to get through with licensing monopoly worship.
Well, it all started and still hangs high within the art world, between the hackneyed commercial and the romantic literary.
A publicity picture, showing envy of to consume. With the motivators, with the Fear, exclusivity guilt, greed, need for approval, convenience and pleasure.
There it goes, with the visual, of publicity, of glamour. That's what the ways of living, or the dejourement of the hustle trance.
It can feel like this, even.
Well, we are in the society we are.
Jan 20, 2026
opportune vs opportunism
Jan 16, 2026
Tiredness of the Beep_Boop pro/anti hype.
Lurking on the LLM/diffusion engineers, (reasons listed here and my tab ICYMI)
May be indiscriminately be labelled pro AI with my rigorous epistemology and interpretation of these events. Despite what AI industry is doing, which I don't have control over.
Empty slogan from the those who build a brand of Anti-ai, this is what happens with the fundamentals and foundherently misplaces from dubious sources, the lay-people still die on the hill of copyright and the water environment
(Bonus video, they way they act with the bad faith second order of the call-outs/cancels Peter coffin points out is worth noting here.) 13:22
What I've learned is the discourse is not going to be found of frustrated freelancers and microbloggers, it keeps going in circles.
Jan 13, 2026
I try to look at the hackneyed marketplace of Twitch Viewers and try not get frustrated
Well Seth, They have a market for anything, you're a liberal generalist, duuuh.
So they all follow the holy mandate of the SEO, where search is organised, or where it is necessary to function of anything for anybody, the desires of many wanna being picked with metrics that can be easily bought.
For it is
METRIC MEDIOCRITY
The teens want their Fortnite
Wow, I almost transformed into a monster for entertaining those audiences, interpreting my important business. Business of zining, can I express my right to be forgotten if I stop following the spectacle of games and new-cycle. Not becoming the product of in-sync status and the performative apathy of trying to avoid the dominion of my eye-buttons.
Jan 10, 2026
Nakedly easy-to-read relations
Are they pretending to hide their relationalism of the metrics,
Little office clerks, working and quietly, not saying the loud part out loud. Everybody is gaming a kind of metric relationalism, or are they in unison of this mawkish pleasure principle, or this satisfaction of teleology of desire?
Everybody has it, the pretensions of acting normal that this relationalism of direct response metrics that let us understand each other's status, status is always relationalism, scarce powers that shim and shimmer amongst the waves of our streams of consciousness that show priorities of importance that guide the intuitions, and into the structure of friends and enemies, attractions and repulsions. Even the complex rationalisations that will be justified.
All for the point, for that sweet, sweet interruption of monetised ads.
Right between the points. Between the relations.
I look back at this media theory By seth, Then wonder.
( Worth another relink )
Jan 4, 2026
Response rate for all the wrong reasons, the hustle cycle.
Jan 2, 2026
Hustle-archy, With the need of structure for a conscious
Due to the quick moving shapes outside in the parks there's this kind of Status role assigned and explicitly and semiotically through the signalling and conduct of Hustle of the status role of money cool money or old money.
Was reading the Tyranny of Structureless of what may happen. By Jo Freeman. Thx Feminist literature.
Dec 27, 2025
The land of no boundaries of business guru maxims
With mass advertiser. Goes into the hustle trance.
The way of the machine zone of playing an eternal economy game of physical pleasure/pain, all the complexities between. With the emotional ways and emotional states, compared to the physical states.
Then I'm trying to clamber for an extension, then I'm not, getting substack posts via business gurus, are well, people who happen to keep working, it's all the advice of people who keep workings
How is the motivation doing, self-industry complex? Any benefit? You don't have to follow any of this advice if you don't have a problem. They are nebulously reaching for better within the void of extrajudicial lands.
Took your test on your blog.
Well good sir, good going on a sunk cost. 🛋️👍 Like I am.
Dec 24, 2025
Second order effects / Human rights / List of Philosophy
That's the alternative of Consequentialism.
Whatever the intention falls. Does not matter to a consequent along with it's spreadsheets.
Dec 22, 2025
Net neturality felt prosumer, refuted.
- The net-naturality felt like it was a pys-op by Netflix.
@naijeieoas Dec 14, 2017
"They uh… they could do this before the NN scare and they never did. Even with the rules in place they still track you with packet injections.It has actually *never* been about getting charged for social media, because companies could always do that too and they haven't. Not that Comcast is innocent in this, since what they were charging for Netflix's access certainly hasn't been lowering the cost of service or building out better infrastructure. The price I'm paying them now for a whole 3 MB/s down should be criminal.
Long story short, #NetNeutrality is a scam by tech companies to go after ISPs for eating into their profits and you're all being duped by these scare tactics.Latest take I saw today was that if NN was repealed, then how would “families with multiple children” be able to afford Internet access. 😂Who in the world is delusional enough to think wired ISPs are going to be able to charge per user, as if that's even technically feasible.
Most wired ISPs only see a router anyway. There was a time (way before NN was a thing) when some of them didn't like home users using a router, but the routers came with MAC address spoofing to get around that problem and the ISPs could do literally nothing about it.So they stopped caring. And besides, do people really not realize how expensive it is *now*? I'm a single person and Comcast has been $60–$80 the whole time I've had them, for 3 MB/s down! Hell I get better speeds for only slightly more on my phone!NN rules have had (___) ALL to do with the actual pricing of websites or ISPs. They've always been able to charge anything they've wanted. The FCC rules never changed that. All NN says is that an ISP can't charge extra for access to a website (which they never did to end users)
I will keep yelling that the origin of the current situation is Netflix whining about having to pay Comcast for data center access and making a big political issue out of it so it didn't eat into their profit. Everything else is ahistorical, metaphysical, emotional appeal."
This is, of course, related to their side of the inter-bourgeois fight called net neutrality, they being the first to really push the idea that it has anything to do with end users. In reality, they simply don't want to pony up any revenue to the companies servicing this traffic.
Monopoly-capitalism (not a lack of “net neutrality”) is rearing its head in information–mass media infrastructure.
Most people don't even know what QoS and network traffic shaping are (and how much they're used on today's Internet) but will still cry about “treating bits equally”. It's such a liberal trap like “free speech” but even communists are taking it at face value.
It all started when the well off middle class people realized they might have to pay slightly extra for Netflix because the large ISPs are competitors in that market, then got morphed into some dorky human rights campaign. Staaaaaaahp."
"I will never forgive this nation for making such a big deal about net neutrality but not about poor infrastructure or monopolistic ISPs."
The inter-bourgeois conflict of “net neutrality” is trending again. She goes. Link
Then, in 2020, she moved away, went to another plane of existence. Thank you for enlightening me and stopping me being so twitter brained with American spectacle. (You don't have to agree with the ideology, btw, )itass commercial polarization meant to sell you of prosumer activism.
I must continue with my sociology.
Dec 20, 2025
The perks of obscurity
Academics are avoiding xwitter, or microblogs, some of them are in substack, they are going there, I found a good post on obscurity.
There's little attention. No data for interupption advertising.
Thousands of merchandise, gone.
Fan fictions all around. Shippers, and all that.
No Status value to follow.
Cherish this moment while it lasts, I trust you, don't I?
( Oh, I've still have to learn to do a sales call, and a payment specification. )
Dec 16, 2025
Marked for death/Marked for life
Since certain things are blind side themselves, the doctrinaires that fly in my for-you feed with the occasional posturing the random beep boop hate.
I don't have to time, An alternative opinion is what I'm showing.
Already, they could frame this tweet, quote-mine it, then make it into a call-out post to try to get clout, yet I know better. Well, esteem, it's one big fluff of a drug. Only thing to proceed now to see others who have been through the dip and blocked, with the way of having.
Not curious or interested.
Do they realise that I'm dancing and contacting the catgirls and the furries of open-source, along with all that LLM/diffusion model discourse? Well, If they find this and take offence, that's a life.
@aelkus.bsky.social
"it's doomed on arrival it's doomed on arrival.
Hard to know where to begin. "AI" includes things as simple as heuristic search (go to first few chapters of the market-leading textbook). It is checking your credit card for fraud (neural network's early usage was in bank/credit transactions). Verbal creep is akin to what happened to "algorithms"
People's relationship to "slop" is also complicated. I hate a good deal of slop but also am an unabashed fan of AI-created cyberpunk electronic mixes, which I take mostly for what they are as background music much of the time
Framing as "anti-AI" at best gives you a high-end status market category, like "GMO-free" and crunchy stuff that eventually gave us RFK Jr and antivaxx crowd
I think a much more feasible thing to lean into is just the consumer backlash that is going to come after vendors realize corrosive effect of low-quality saturation
Damned Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social· 3d
AI will probably end up being what is used to filter out Chinese factory dropshipping goods on Amazon once consumer anger forces action
barriers to entry will go up and its going to be interesting to see what kind of signifiers of quality will win out. history suggests they could take many different forms
i don't really have much of a clue about what they will be, in large part because vendors' interests also determine this as opposed to just consumer demand. remember chaos after FB tweaked its content recommendation/boosting software repeatedly? Fortunes instantly lost overnight
i do feel fairly confident that the crunchy approach probably leads to a dead end
Dec 10, 2025
Clown shoes to youtube? thoughts on glamour medium.
I'm not in a state to make YouTube videos. Since reaching a mass audience is a matter of crapshoot, a commitment. Everybody is everywhere, even with Seth Godin and other marketers everywhere.
That's value.
Am I survivor seeing all the status functions happen with each point of time?
Oh well, the tension of the typographical and Televisual mindsets are always with me.
Dec 4, 2025
jester/justicar
The play/seriousness at it again of the state where the fun.
Dec 1, 2025
Ode to the Meme time
Memeplexs
One thing social media has done, which is nice. Is memes.
The only idea and concept that Richard Dawkins every contributed to our culture, with communal expressions that lead to heuristics of better understanding of civilisation, or more heuristics.
Other ideas, such a study of meme, and the meme machine are better books on this phomonoa imo.
Now share along, those transcendent of the Draconian IP laws, spread away and fall through the ideas of all the ways into the art of collage and in the see of the cyberspace.
Swoosh!
Nov 25, 2025
Kim Kardashianifcation
All the time
People doing pin-ups and cuties.
People doing displacement and wanting to be the next sellerbrity
All on a platform for free, 24 hours a day, and the lottery of unpredictability.
Well, shows how small this social media world is within this land of ideas.
When Kim Kardification recommends epistemology, (study of knowledge) (study from a twerk video on tik-tok) What a world.
Nov 23, 2025
Excuse-O-Matrix, Beware the Indiscreet, dishonest hustle
"I wanna just ambulance chase"
There's something wiggling, crawling, with the anti-work and the workerism of all the stuff within us that's not that a labour that only smallest and viable, yet it's escaping a responsibility to do work to get paid, or exposure that frightens.
Nobody holds everybody to account, since their engagement with these platforms means we are all suspect of them marketers, all there, pushing our buttons for status, for the state, for the status quo, for the status quo ante.
All a game, all a thing of scarcity and election, all dutifully within the rules of our imaginations.
All the herd mentality, all the herd, that simply IS, not good, not bad. Not controlled, out in the for you tab or the Discovery. That's a algorithm, that's a market. Good or bad, that's advertising, that's propaganda, that's the commercially friendly and that's the education.
Whatever the platonic natural world justifys, whatever the polemisation is brought.
All a blur