A batch of the best highlights from what J's read, .
So much the better for the algorithms streaming us the picture of the world we want to see, uncorrupted by imagery of what’s really happening out there. (And if it does come through, just swipe left and the algorithms will know never to interrupt your dream state with such real news again.)
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
Corporations flooding the zone with propaganda about the inevitability of superhuman intelligence or the current capacity of their products to "think" are, ultimately, part of a long lineage of technologies concerned with cultivating social control.
AI, Slavery, Surveillance, and Capitalism
Substack
Workers have no social safety net because the companies that have rendered them jobless show no profits and pay no taxes.