people are happily replacing all their friendships with chatgpt, incapable of performing basic tasks without the machine, incapable of remembering how a sentence started by the time they read the end, incapable of any actual sexual relation because their libido is clotted with digital images like an alcoholic’s liver, but obsessively consuming psycho gender war racist sludge, meanwhile the new season of black mirror, the “phones bad” show, is once again about little white nubbins you put on your temples to experience an immersive virtual reality