Everyone suddenly wants to regulate tech platforms in the US, but no one wants to say the word "monopoly."
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Ryan Broderick
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Ryan Broderick
@broderick
Founder of Garbage Media, where I write the award-winning Garbage Day newsletter about web culture and host the Panic World podcast. They're both really good.
New York, I guess Katılım Aralık 2008
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Two things that are true:
-Massive algorithmic tech platforms need to be regulated
-There is no proposed regulation in the US that legally defines a site like Facebook as being different from like the comment section on someone's blog
Without that we destroy the internet.
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First they claimed it was for misinformation and now they're saying our video, which features non-AI footage of Netanyahu (which is the point of the video) is AI content 🤔🤔🤔
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TikTok banned a video we made making fun of Benjamin Netanyahu and continues to change the official reason why. First it said it was for misinformation, now it's saying it was for AI content.
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@AkilahObviously @FireMonkey I talked to a guy at Epic and he said they can make an exception just for me. Gonna let me change teams. Sorry, didn't want you to find out next time you logged in <3
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@FireMonkey Honestly shouldn’t the foundation team be way further behind if they’re down 20 million players? Ice King team isnt so tough.
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👑Team Ice King - 336,582,645 19.92%
🪨Team Foundation - 310,171,747 18.35%
Team Foundation has 7 Hours left of their multiplier.
12 Hours ago the gap difference was at 3.52% now it is at 1.57%!
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I never saw Fall Guy and the reason I never saw it (and lots of other people didn't see it) was because streaming platforms produced so many action (rom)comedies that they basically became spam. I saw Project Hail Mary yesterday because it looked different and fun. (It was!)
chloe@wisetruecorrect
the massive success of project hail mary has me trying to figure out what went wrong with The Fall Guy, a movie i didn’t love but by all accounts should’ve been a big hit
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I just read this piece thanks to Garbage Day (the best newsletter about the internet ever written). This kind of lazy "cultural critique" can only happen if you keep pretending that there is the INTERNET, and REAL LIFE, and somehow they aren't the same thing thenewatlantis.com/publications/a…
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April 7th, Baby’s Alright in Williamsburg, I’m doing GARBAGE DAY LIVE with *Don Lemon*, hosted by @broderick 🗑️ 😎 Get ticketsss eventim.us/event/Garbage-…
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Giant mics now convey more authority than fancy sets
*a trend first noted to me years ago by @broderick
Alex Weprin@alexweprin
How long has AC360 on CNN been doing the faux podcast set design?
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The kind of story only an American could write (derogatory). Weebification is happening everywhere. A cursory look at Japan — where it started — would give you every answer you're looking for here. Stagnant economy -> arrested development -> niche consumerism replaces identity.
The New Atlantis@tnajournal
You’re not hallucinating the great weirding of America. The visual evidence is everywhere.
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if you’re not familiar with Akilah’s work, get familiar
Akilah Hughes@AkilahObviously
So I have a new podcast called “How is This Better” and we went scorched earth on the AI slop from bots on here about the war in Iran. Listen and watch wherever you get your pods.
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The Timothée Chalamet controversy is actually very weird! (And probably extremely fake.)
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This post illustrates my problem with AI-generated text. It literally does not feel good to my eyes. It's clunky and boring and doesn't hold together well. Also after taking this quiz I realized AI is bad at starting and ending paragraphs. Has no concept of pacing.
Nordic AI Institute@nordicinst
New York Times @nytimes: Who's a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. - The New York Times. #industry40 #aistrategy #ArtificialIntelligence nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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@luke_winkie True! I wonder if there was some kind of "less explicit Nazi shit" memo that went around and this is all that's left
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@broderick It actually seems like there has been some weird backsliding towards this Epic Bacon co-worker stuff. Whatever this is, it’s not based.
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Right-wing culture, regardless of what it is specifically, is always 10-15 years behind everyone else. Whether we're talking about craft beer, stomp clap indie, or millennial epic bacon Reddit slop. Just a completely pathological aversion to relevance. Sad.
The White House@WhiteHouse
JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸🔥
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Nothing makes me feel anything anymore
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Epstein was involved with 4chan?! In this week's episode of Panic World, @broderick and Marcus Parks of @LPontheleft get together to break down the strange web of connections between Jeffrey Epstein, the early internet, and modern conspiracy culture. youtube.com/watch?v=o-CVQn…
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Once we could see what people "liked," watched, and engaged with online we were given the option to lean further into mass appeal or fight against it for niche appeal. AI makes that choice — between slop and luxury — even more economically risky by making slop the cheaper path.
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AI forces everyone to finally make a decision on taste. Social media decimated the middle ground between luxury and slop and AI only exacerbates it. There will be many companies — and people — that decide they do not have the strength (or the budget) to fight its downward pull.
Peter Hamby@PeterHamby
This is … not wrong
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