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Miguel Afonso Caetano"From unstoppable slop, to “enshittification”, to a digital world peopled by automatons, all of these ideas have a useful explanatory power. None, on its own, sufficiently captures the problem. The internet suffers from a cluster of disorders, some with overlapping symptoms and causes. I’m interested in uniting them all under a bigger tent, one that accounts for their similarities and for the role of human decision-making in bringing us to our current predicament.Borrowing from the world of public architecture, I think of it as the “hostile internet”. Through deliberate choices, and some unintended consequences, the architects of the current consumer internet have created a thoroughly commercialised, surveilled and authoritarian space where basic functions are seconded to the extractive appetites of the monopolies overseeing the system. And it’s making us miserable. (...) Like the Moynihan Train Hall, today’s internet isn’t really designed for us, but rather to elicit certain responses from us, responses which, to put it loftily, are hostile to human flourishing. The tech companies’ growth-at-all-costs mentality has scaled their products’ flaws and vulnerabilities — and their second-order social effects — in proportion with their billion-person user bases. The hostile internet is a witch’s brew of explanations for how one of humanity’s most important inventions has produced so much simultaneous prosperity, inequality, disruption and social upheaval.The result is that today’s internet seems to, if not make us actually crazy, make many of us seem crazy. Always connected, always posting and consuming, we resemble madmen now, giving voice to thoughts that are normally the province of the eccentric ranting on a street corner."<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/5d06bbb4-0034-493b-8b0d-5c0ab74bedef" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/5d06bbb4-0034-493b-8b0d-5c0ab74bedef</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AISlop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AISlop</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenWeb</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/HostileInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HostileInternet</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OnlineScams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineScams</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FakeAds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FakeAds</a>

SetSideBMore Mario Kart World Fake Ads I mentioned these a few days ago, but my favorite part of Mario Kart games these days is the in-universe ads for various Mario-themed automotive products. Whatever world these games are set in, it obviously doesn't have to worry about global warming, because not only are there plenty of vehicular support companies there, but they're all either themed <a href="https://setsideb.com/more-mario-kart-world-atmospheric-posters/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://setsideb.com/more-mario-kart-world-atmospheric-posters/</a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/niche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#niche</a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/FakeAds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FakeAds</a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/mariokart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mariokart</a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/niche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#niche</a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/nintendo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nintendo</a>

Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/1973128/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/1973128/</a> Satirical storm hits Elon Musk in Britain and Europe | World News <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#activism</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/billboards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billboards</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Britain</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ClimateDenial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateDenial</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#europe</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FakeAds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FakeAds</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FarRightMovements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FarRightMovements</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GreatBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreatBritain</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#misinformation</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NaziSalute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaziSalute</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/OverthrowMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OverthrowMusk</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PoliticalInfluence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoliticalInfluence</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ProtestGroups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProtestGroups</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ridicule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ridicule</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Satire</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/StreetArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StreetArt</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TakedownTesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TakedownTesla</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tesla</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TeslaStockPrice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TeslaStockPrice</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TheCenterForPoliticalBeauty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheCenterForPoliticalBeauty</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnitedKingdom</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#US</a>

Photo Ewen 📷Scam alert.I saw this on Facebook just now. Thought something was not right about it. Clicked through to get a better idea of what that might be.The website they made is a click-scam that will try to download malware. Dressed up as a front end to clinical trials.Facebook is happy to allow these scams to run because they get paid each time someone clicks. They don't care. It should be illegal what Facebook is doing. I hate everything about that website.<a href="https://photog.social/tags/ScamAlert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScamAlert</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/FacebookScam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FacebookScam</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/FakeAds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FakeAds</a>

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