It used to go something like this. We experienced the outside world – including arts, culture and fashion – via a combination of community, geography, mass and specialist media, and serendipitous accidents. Exposed to a range of styles, genres and ideas, we would decide what appealed to us, and then attempt (with varying degrees of success) to consume and engage with those things.
This is no longer the case. We increasingly encounter most aspects of the world through a single aperture: streaming and social media platforms. Or, more specifically, the algorithmic feeds of streaming and social media platforms, plus algorithmically optimised search engines and e-commerce sites, from Amazon to Vinted. In many cases, these are programmed to show each individual specific content based on data gathered from their own activities and those of other users – content that will ideally keep them on the platform for as long as possible.
adriau
TownSquare
Ribbie: 8-bit Baseball
ribbie.tv
It’s Never Over – Jeff Buckley
Probably the best music documentary I’ve seen since Dear Mama.
Dear Mama
Probably the best music documentary I’ve seen since How Music Got Free.
Regurgitator – I Wanna Be A Nudist
youtube.com
chipotlai-max
github.comThe AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯 Fork of OpenCode with Pepper AI as default model. Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & more.
May 2026
Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out
youtube.com
Mirei Monticelli
studiomirei.com
Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI
404media.coThey Finally Did The Thing
How prosthetic penises in shows like HBO’s ‘Minx’ reinforce existing stereotypes and taboos
theconversation.comBut to me, their growing use, and the way in which actors wielding them are deceptively described as partaking in “full frontal nudity,” often reinforces existing taboos under a guise of progressivism and gender equality.
What’s wrong with just showing the real thing?
BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN
theverge.com…everyone in tech understands how much regular people dislike AI. What I think they’re missing is why. They think this is a marketing problem. OpenAI just spent $200 million on the TBPN podcast because the company thinks it will help make people like AI more.
AI doesn’t have a marketing problem. People experience these tools every single day! ChatGPT has 900 million weekly users, trending to a billion, and everyone has seen AI Overviews in Google Search and massive amounts of slop on their feeds.
You can’t advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences. This is a fundamental disconnect between how tech people with software brains see the world and how regular people are living their lives.
April 2026
