commentarii
rssessays short and long. politics, history, ideas, craft. written when there is no other way left to think it through.
staying out is no longer free
with social media you could stay out and nothing happened. with artificial intelligence, staying out is starting to mean staying out of a job. and nobody is talking about this.
- ii. a defeat from the very first moment
between the infinite scroll and artificial intelligence, my brain is melting. and i'm starting to think self-control is a lie we've swallowed.
- iii. the price of a thousand followers
on tiktok, two out of every three videos are ads. and what unsettles me isn't the giant accounts, but the tiny ones.
- iv. but everyone has an iphone
four out of every five people under thirty in this country can't get access to housing. and when you say it, someone reminds you that you own a phone and that you go on holiday, as if living were the problem.
- v. the tiktok of production
artificial intelligence has opened so many doors for me at once that it has enslaved me to keep opening one after the next, without stopping to think whether i should.
- vi. the future won't be cyberpunk
we picture the cities of the future packed with giant screens covered in advertising. i think exactly the opposite is going to happen.