You’ll find that these professions have a vested interest in maintaining network effects, and as such will view Mast/Blue as threats to their networking infrastructure. They don’t want to dilute the importance of the platform their patronage systems rely on (let alone destroy it) - in fact its centrality is why they leverage it to advance their careers. Artists I can see understanding platform agnosticism to some extent, but for the other two groups, it’s simply not in their DNA. The gatekeeping is a feature for them.

‘The medium is the message’ as a Canadian theorist once said.

The domain is leased to SEO lizards https://larslofgren.com/forbes-marketplace/

Let us share products, offers and rewards you might like to help stores personalize your shopping.

This sentence is a masterpiece of omission.

Smear campaign

A smear campaign, also referred to as a smear tactic or simply a smear, is an effort to damage or call into question someone’s reputation, by propounding negative propaganda.[1] It makes use of discrediting tactics. It can be applied to individuals or groups. Common targets are public officials, politicians, political candidates, activists, and ex-spouses. The term also applies in other contexts, such as the workplace.[2] The term smear campaign became popular around 1936.[3] [Wikipedia[

YT will likely attempt to play creators and viewers off one another. Similar to how hospitality does so with patrons and staff re: tips. You could see a FUD campaign aimed at anyone republishing their work on competitor sites.

A good example of this scam that sticks out to me is plastics recycling. The marketed goal is a circular, sustainable^TM plastic economy. The real goals are uninterrupted plastics manufacturing and the maintenance of tax receipts from plastic goods consumption. Industry and government simply do not want less plastic in the world.

I haven’t logged in for nearly three years. Has TI been overhauled again?

Dirty Bomb

Characters like him are targeted because they are both successful and anti establishment

2035 2028: Browser content is piped to a local AI that filters junk and noise then feeds the result back into the browser for screen display

https://files.catbox.moe/1laxu0.webm

Users: Do you realize what Windows is subjecting us to? MS board of directors: Windows? We don’t even use PCs

Rating schemes inevitably become subject to gaming and P2W.

Service providers need to be honest about their stack and its implementation, and people need to git gud.

Bell curve meme:

Grug: A file on my computer (/Desktop/passwords.txt) Matty Midwit: Cloud connectivity! Phone numbers! Biometrics! Just install the app! Less than a cup coffee per month! Backed by FAGMAN^TM! The monk: A file on my computer (KPXC)

Context is king. If there’s vital/time-dependent correspondence you’re waiting on, notifications can matter. But email in 2024 is pretty darn transactional, in which case a daily check is enough for most. Notifications for something suggest that I need to drop what I’m doing and attend to whatever arrived. That just doesn’t apply for service provider marketing, purchase receipts, etc.

And then the opsec angle comes into play: https://www.axios.com/2023/12/06/apple-google-requests-push-notification-data

Notifications are overrated. I turn them off for the bulk of apps.

Devote one or two small time windows each day for life admin. Outside those windows it shouldn’t be seen or heard.

When is the company axing search?

The purpose of the piece is to smear the notion of individual control and development of AI tools. It’s known as ‘running propaganda’.

I’m happy with outgroup x being able to develop their own AIs, because that means I’m able to develop AIs too.

Staggeringly naive, tbh. Your profession will be made obsolete as a self-sustaining for-profit enterprise either way. The difference is that the tooling can either be owned exclusively by megacorp, or it can be owned by people.

It’s better to be a bard relying on the charity and small custom of others than a literal sharecropper fueling Universal’s proprietary model for next to nothing. At least in the former case you’re free.