Spotify using AI to make fake tracks so they don’t have to pay artists. Netflix intentionally creating shows designed to be so simplistic you don’t have to pay attention. CoComelon designing TV for toddlers to be so addicting they can’t turn away. It’s all very bleak 💀

“Writers like Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace built entire careers on the idea American society is headed toward super-stimulation by its corporate overlords. Not only is there a video in Infinite Jest so entertaining you literally die, but in its close future, dates have become billboards, so the novel skips around temporal locales like the Year of the Dependable Undergarments or the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar.”