Damon, you are on to something here. I call it The Spectacle of the Real - https://edbrenegar.substack.com/p/the-spectacle-of-the-real?s=w. We are the product of their enterprise as we share what they send us. So, disinformation is not relegated to one side of the political universe, it is the entire ecosystem of the political universe. Every side in the Ukraine war is creating their own simulated reality to persuade or seduce the public to sit in judgement of what none of us know as the actual reality on the ground. As long as we let them claim our attention, waiting for the next Breaking News event, or the next discovery of an unknown million selling singer/song writer, it will remain as it is. Thanks. Good piece.
Wow, thank you for this. This makes me jokingly theorize that Spotify is potentially shaping their future growth using the Uber model; basically hold out until there is the technology to replace human “partners” with custom tailored AI Muzak for the masses.
Damon, you are on to something here. I call it The Spectacle of the Real - https://edbrenegar.substack.com/p/the-spectacle-of-the-real?s=w. We are the product of their enterprise as we share what they send us. So, disinformation is not relegated to one side of the political universe, it is the entire ecosystem of the political universe. Every side in the Ukraine war is creating their own simulated reality to persuade or seduce the public to sit in judgement of what none of us know as the actual reality on the ground. As long as we let them claim our attention, waiting for the next Breaking News event, or the next discovery of an unknown million selling singer/song writer, it will remain as it is. Thanks. Good piece.
Wow, thank you for this. This makes me jokingly theorize that Spotify is potentially shaping their future growth using the Uber model; basically hold out until there is the technology to replace human “partners” with custom tailored AI Muzak for the masses.
Great! This one should be framed and on a wall somewhere.
The disconnect between the promise of what they sell and what we get is so disappointing - I wrote about how unfriendly algorithms are to small indie artists here: https://locarmen.substack.com/p/algorithms-are-not-your-friend?s=w