Model Collapse

Alexander Macris on Model Collapse

It's the final 2 days for our Lord of Fate campaign. Don't miss your last chance to claim exclsusive rewards and unlock the Burned Book in audio. Back it on Kickstarter now. A concept that's proven illuminating for those just learning about it is the idea of model collapse. The…
September 24, 202415 Comments
TV Devil Box

Talking With the Devil Box

A common criticism leveled at Baby Boomers by members of younger generations is that trying to change Boomers' minds with dialectical reason is like hitting your head against the wall. This intellectual stubbornness is summed up in the meme "When you're arguing with a Boomer, you're really arguing with the…
August 28, 20249 Comments

Zoomer Uses 1980s Technology for a Week

Stop the press. The haywire internet algorithms' varioius malfuncitons aligned in such a way as to make a useful suggestion. This digital miracle occurred over the weekend, when YouTube recommended a video wherein a Zoomer uses 1980s technology for a week. For over fifteen minutes, I watched enrapt as YouTuber…
July 29, 202416 Comments
Rock Faucet

Can’t Stop the Rock Faucet

We've spent a lot of time charting the crisis besetting the modern music industry. And one of the best professionals who's undertaken the project of plumbing the problem is Rick Beato. Now, the veteran producer and studio musician does a deep dive into why music has gotten worse since Cultural…
July 1, 202410 Comments
Cancel Adobe

“Cancel Adobe”: Backlash Prompts Corp to Update TOS Again

Adobe is suffering considerable external and internal backlash over their convoluted terms of service update. The one whose plain reading says they get to take ownership of your IP without compensation. Who could have predicted this turn of events? Last week, Photoshop and Substance 3D developer Adobe stole the headlines…
June 17, 202410 Comments
Metaverse Biopanopticon Wojak

The Metaverse Biopanopticon

If you were anywhere online two years back, it was impossible to avoid the revived hype surrounding virtual reality, particularly Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse. Like self-driving cars, AI, and solar-powered homes, you can throw VR on the pile of futuristic technologies that eggheads have been swearing since the 1980s were "just…
June 10, 20246 Comments
Adobe TOS

Adobe’s New TOS Makes You the Product?

As the state of technology gets worse and worse, observations by two dissident influencers become more and more relevant. The first is the Z Man, proprietor of the Z Blog, who has pointed out that if you don't know what a tech company's product is, then you are the product.…
June 6, 202416 Comments
Kids TV 1980s

Gen Y and the Pre-Internet Age

Getting mugged by reality is a definitive experience of Generation Y. The last cohort with personal memories of the pre-9/11 world, Ys have entered middle age in a state of deep confusion regarding their place in society. So far, the story of their lives has been “Stuff yourself on fast…
April 30, 202419 Comments
Gate No Walls

No Gatekeepers Where There Are No Walls

My cherished Neopatrons and I were discussing the phenomenon of the indie author who goes back to signing with publishers. It's been fascinating to see this regression to the oldpub model the minute some realize the newpub model is obsolete. Falling back on the even more obsolete yet familiar instead…
April 22, 202412 Comments
Final Fantasy VII Test 0

FF7: The 1st Unfinished AAA Game?

One of the stranger zombie memes still circulating in this year of Our Lord 2023 - a time rife with zombie memes - lazily holds that video games are just toys and gaming a mere hobby. A quick look around the cultural landscape soon reveals that notion as reductive. Vdya…
December 21, 202323 Comments