Don't mistake incompetence for accident. The degradation of your social media feed, the collapse of your news, the defunding of your school—it is all functional.

They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.

1000xInscrygnalisframe

Recent decades of mass media have so lowered most people's bars for what humans are and are capable of.

Current AI isn't matching human potential, but what we've been trained to restrict our potential to by systems that already incentivize slop.

Backpack Battles
Minit
Barotrauma
The Beginner's Guide
Venba
Inscryption
Revenge of the Titans
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

Return of the Obra Dinn
Outer Wilds
Carto
Duck Game
Rift Wizard
Baba is You
The Witness
Immortality
Synthetik
Audiosurf
Rollers of the Realm
Monster Train
Kind Words
Butterfly Soup
Ori and the Blind Forest
Hollow Knight
Hades 2
Concrete Jungle
Altitude
Omega Strikers
Sundered
Islanders
A Hat in Time

Lots of universities will give you a quick rundown; here’s one I like to share with folks. accessibility.uiowa.edu/alt-text

Saw this a while back with "astronomy" slop accounts shamelessly reposting fake and genAI images even after being called out. Genuine death-of-the-internet shit.

Present day Anastasia homage. Just like the original it's about uniting with family, both biological and found, ☺️💜 and overthrowing an authoritarian, Russian regime.✊🔥