Episode 64 - The Minecraft Movie Audience is a Fake News AI Construct
Added 2025-04-16 16:33:13 +0000 UTCOn today's episode, we try to explain the multiple definitions of 'fake news', the seamless integration of technology as they destroy digital landscapes, and the lack of differing schools of thought on aesthetics.
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All that we have gained the machine threatens, as long as it dares to exist in the mind and not in obedience. - Rilke
Aristotle Blackwell
2025-04-20 00:27:33 +0000 UTCGood to be listening again. Life's been fine, with such a lot of reading and experiencing, so I haven't taken time to sit and listen. Funny you mention about snap shots of tweets being pedalled as fact. Opinion eclipsing experience. I've been commenting on that for years, when it comes to articles about, say, a flop movie..... "Dave from Harrow tweeted: "it was woke shit. The world's gone mad." Obsession with the right to opine, partly addictive and self righteous but also partly a defensive way to keep a threatening online world at bay. Issues, agendas, and real world experiences have less and less meaning. Society is more and more disconnected from a real, living, breathing world. And it's all in favour of the fervour of opinion. Rage, anger, hatred, fear, obsession, compulsion, addiction. How does the wheel stop? It can't sustain when it's liquifying so many minds, and eroding simple peace of mind, curiosity, empathy. In pre internet days, the world kept turning, issues occured, fights were fought, and we continued with our lives. We may have heard about them, we're curious about them even, but they didn't always affect our everyday. They didn't have to. Especially when it was a matter for a minority or a subculture or section of society that wasn't something I had experience of. Yet now, every single little thing happening in the world, through a phone, is immediate, at my door, threatening, and requires every user to opine. And for what value? Or what purpose? It's entirely lost. I've just finished Hobsbawm's Age of Revolution, and the parallels I read of that book in this subject from 200 years ago compared to today is fascinating and terrible. At work the other day I was only talking about the frenzy and fear that people are also compelled by when it comes to media 'events'. For the mainstream, the only media that seems to exist are the ones that live in social media trending. When once social connection over a new film or show or game was a joy to feel a part of, we are saturated with the immediacy of everything... All dependent on opinion and broadcasting. If I can't show up and post on my socials that I am also a part of it, where do I belong? What do I mean? No wonder experiences like live music are so hollow now. People show up just to be there. To feign meaning and connection. Naturally, my conversation was informed in part by the channel's previous discussion of a pre and post COVID world. Online engagement, broadcasting ourselves, and a frantic clinging to both are key to that change.
hyperballadbrad
2025-04-18 09:07:15 +0000 UTC
