We are well on our to becoming one of the barbaric societies we read about in history books and can barely comprehend.

All true so it confounds that, politically, so many people have turned into prudish boot-lickers.

There is hope for this country yet.

Only the networks can sell ads on dumb tvs.

I like to think that in a few years there will be an opportunity for a company to make good money selling tvs with just a tuner, but I am afraid the public will just have been trained to accept the enshitificaton.

It’s just super rich for a trade group representing Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Disney, and Paramount wringing their hands over $500m for public media.

If the TV industry cares about public media, they’re in a prime position to put their money where their mouth is. Support CPB financially, subsidize content for public media, promote and distribute existing public media content on your streaming platforms.

And if storytelling over the public airwaves is so important for society, then why are studios developing almost exclusively behind streaming paywalls.

The celebrities and Studios they’re celebrating could easily fund its $500million budget.

AI slop is making the entire internet a less appealing place to be.

I know I can suppress it, but if I print an article (so that I can share it with my son) it prints the robot nonsense.

I’m also pissed at Apple for wedding their AI summary into Safari’s “Reader View”. Like I went into reader mode to READ a fucking article.

And, if people REALLY want 3 key points, why couldn’t the thinking & breathing author / editor write them?

The way headlines and subheads are written now, if you’re not going to read the article you already have the point.