It was probably drunk.

60 Minutes was already part of the problem, because it opened the door for news - and investigation - as mere entertainments. Next stop "fair and balanced", then reality TV, then celebrity presidents. Dumbing down didn't start yesterday.

Starting to wonder if tech lords and their minions aren't just trying to make enough money to insulate themselves and their children from the huge pyramidal shit show they're in the process of creating. #AI

Just more people following the money. What they have surrendered their brains to is the market. Hype pays, until it doesn't. Thanks for doing your bit to counter it.

The fact is they did their actual job: it was a VERY entertaining series. Anybody who whines that they "didn't achieve greatness" hasn't been paying attention to the actual games. The last few weeks have been great baseball.

And any policy that would be seen, rightly, as moderate in much of the developed world is branded as "radical left socialism".

Come on, blaming "boomers" or any other large, diverse group -- most of whom were in no way involved in these decisions -- is just lazy and self-defeating. Better off targeting the incentives that actually caused the problem.

Given that "normies" don't care that their country is being run by frickin Donald Trump in the first place, they must basically not care about anything real at all. 🙄

More like "Create Epic Bullshit".

The tech industry has been mining simplistic, visceral addiction and attention mechanisms of huge user bases for decades, so appealing to one toddler-president can't be much of a stretch. Just asking the marketing department, "How do we get through to this particular idiot?", isn't that hard.

People do largely useless stuff pretty much all the time.

At the very least, there's a sigh of relief in some newsrooms at being given an opportunity to look professional.

The wealthy.