2026-03-19 19:17:23
Episode 159 of Hemispheric Views podcast! The Australians are falling apart. @Burk is moving a million pounds. We try on a thought experiment. █████ is back! @martinfeld brings up a train, and by doing so, some trauma for me!
2026-03-17 14:07:14
The Cynical, Gullible American Man - The Atlantic:
We have a data economy that thrives on selling products we don’t need for problems we don’t have, and a public that falls for these ploys—even as we think ourselves much too clever to be fooled.
This article, linked to by Kottke creates a new word, that might take off much as ‘enshittification’ did. This one is gullicism, noting that people seem now to be gullible about snake-oil salesman, and cynical about experts.
Yesterday I watched Louis Theroux’s Manosphere documentary and today I read this article at The Atlantic. I’m losing hope for the world.
