someone needs to write something about how the internet is breaking after all of society was restructured to work within it, and how this is making many aspects of daily life completely fucking impossible. journalism is just one example.

This was great and prescient on our review farming internet shopping nightmare https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-bloggers-lawsuits-underside-of-the-mattress-wars

There was some book that had a similar idea ten years ago, but it was much more. " ahhh oooh peter theil is going to ruin the internet." And not "we fucked up" iirc. I can't find it right now rip

Journalism started breaking when editors decided their reporters didn't need their work proofread before it was published.

I'm really wondering if Google did some kind of ranking system based on Twitter blue checks...and Musk doing what he did knocked the critical remaining leg out from Google Search.

I've posted some things regarding this as one of my very few posts here. I'm not stopping, in fact i've gotten much more written and friends with expertise. Despite this, it's a difficult challenge, i hope to gain more support in these endavors. Won't speak to soon, but I will try and deliver.

Yeah, it would need to start with how the net was roughed out pre 2.0 and walled gardens to be resilient, and the thing that is breaking it and daily life, is a socisaty wide dive into corperate monopolies mainly, inc our social media walled gardens. Sigh.

Journalism was never intended for instant-gratification of internet. It’s adjusted poorly to the medium. Journalism is reporting, digging, and thinking — not feeding a news cycle. But here we are.

Every time i see an AI generated blog post or a word for word stolen news story with 50 ads on each side of the page a part of my soul leaves my body

We have lost our institutional verification methods (for truth, for quality), which also function as gatekeepers and to regulate things, including behavior. There are some real upsides to this, but also considerable negatives, like the erosion of trust and difficulty establishing veracity.

The breaking of journalism is a whole other bag of worms though.