Medicine Has a Garbage-In Problem
The internet was already full of medical misinformation, commercial health sites, miracle claims and cyberchondria. AI didn't create the garbage. It gave the garbage industrial production capacity.
SLOP SCORE9.0
FIELD NOTES FROM THE FEED
Slop Culture
Field notes from an internet becoming easier to fill and harder to trust. AI slop, algorithm bait, fake authority, corporate goo, and the occasional thing still worth paying attention to.
ATTENTION ≠ VALUE
The Country Is On Fire. Politics Is Fighting a Streamer
Hasan Piker doesn't hold office, write laws or command an institution. So why does American politics spend so much energy fighting about him? Because personalities make better content than governing.
ENTER THE RABBIT HOLE →
7.0GRADE-A SLOP
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Your Feed Is Not Public Opinion
They are furious about Gaza, Israel, Trump, Democrats, Republicans, the economy, pronouns, eggs, flags, schools, billionaires, socialism, capitalism, whatever somebody said on a podcast and whatever somebody else said about what somebody said on the podcast.
SLOP SCORE8.0
Why Boomers Love AI So Much
Boomers don't actually use generative AI more than younger generations. So why have AI Jesus, impossible crafts and synthetic Facebook imagery become so associated with them? The answer says less about age than it does about what happens when technology finally stops making you feel stupid.
SLOP SCORE7.5