this article is about how and why four of the world’s largest corporations are intentionally centralizing the internet and selling us horseshit. it’s a fun and depressing read about crypto, the metaverse, AI, and the pattern of behavior that led to all of those being pushed in spite of their utter worthlessness. here’s some pull quotes:
Web 3.0 probably won’t involve the blockchain or NFTs in any meaningful way. We all may or may not one day join the metaverse and wear clunky goggles on our faces for the rest of our lives. And it feels increasingly unlikely that our graphic designers, artists, and illustrators will suddenly change their job titles to "prompt artist” anytime soon.
I can’t stress this point enough. The reason why GAMM and all its little digirati minions on social media are pushing things like crypto, then the blockchain, and now virtual reality and artificial intelligence is because those technologies require a metric fuckton of computing power to operate. That fact may be devastating for the earth, indeed it is for our mental health, but it’s wonderful news for the four storefronts selling all the juice.
The presumptive beneficiaries of this new land of milk and honey are so drunk with speculative power that they’ll promise us anything to win our hearts and minds. That anything includes magical virtual reality universes and robots with human-like intelligence. It’s the same faux-passionate anything that proclaimed crypto as the savior of the marginalized. The utter bullshit anything that would have us believe that the meek shall inherit the earth, and the powerful won’t do anything to stop it.
It’s not indistinguishable. People are choosing not to learn or understand how anything works. It more convenient to not know.
it’s hardly news that VCs and shit spend influence and capital to shape perception and manufacture consent. it’s so not-news it was even literally mentioned in the very article this thread is about
golly fuck it’s been a pristine couple of days for posters to not read the article and then come in here and fucking make up what they figure the article says
these ones didn’t even bring mangled quotes to try and force their point, they just straight up didn’t open the link
I fucking love taking a week off then coming back and finding these “sort by controversial” threads.
that sound you didn’t hear was the reference going entirely over your head
Apparently you didn’t get it either since your unable to point out what exactly I missed.
this isn’t primary school and I’m not your favourite teacher, I’m not required to coddle your knowledge
but, you know, it’s funny? it’s weird, I did know what it meant! shocking, I know. but I did. that’s how, y’know, my reply had the shape it did. absolutely wild. people can know things! who knew?!
