Saturday, December 29, 2018

To dream of kids surviving a tidal wave

"What’s gone from the internet, after all, isn’t 'truth,' but trust: the sense that the people and things we encounter are what they represent themselves to be. Years of metrics-driven growth, lucrative manipulative systems, and unregulated platform marketplaces, have created an environment where it makes more sense to be fake online — to be disingenuous and cynical, to lie and cheat, to misrepresent and distort — than it does to be real. Fixing that would require cultural and political reform in Silicon Valley and around the world, but it’s our only choice. Otherwise we’ll all end up on the bot internet of fake people, fake clicks, fake sites, and fake computers, where the only real thing is the ads."
 ~ Max Read

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html


"I give it two months until some hacky 'dystopian' pop star releases a 'concept' 'experience' called The Inversion" ~ L. Snapes

https://mobile.twitter.com/laurasnapes/status/1078350517460525058

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