Ep. 36 Premium - Your Short-Form Media Diet [VIDEO]
Added 2025-12-15 18:00:16 +0000 UTCRecorded on: December 12th, 2025
Intro
Metaverse has a plan?
Facebook shakes up its AI position
Layoffs vs Gig Work
Waymo are expanding
Automation in general
Businesses weren’t magically more virtuous before
Short form media diets
It is good to be bored
Comments
So if all the factory jobs are replaced with robots where does all the money go that was for employees? Into the company's pocket i would think? And they dont have a reason to bring down prices, we get screwed with no upside for employees only the rich people at the top benefit from AI at least thats what it feels like to me
Colin Young
2026-01-23 14:27:39 +0000 UTCONLY little kids plays meta horizon worlds out of the like 50 people I found there was only like one adult,
William
2025-12-22 02:37:02 +0000 UTCI guess my question with this is… how do you eat? UBI is a flexibility thing. Sure: for some it would be a boost to their economic spending. But building infrastructure takes YEARS. Smaller towns and suburbs it would take even longer (if even economically viable). Then we add people actually eating. UBI and UHC just eliminates a lot of government processes to get people what they need (and for some what they want). Don’t get me wrong: those are both extremely important steps and things we need to do but if you are looking at mass unemployment that isn’t a real solution. That solution becomes government provided housing and government food lines.
M C
2025-12-18 20:24:00 +0000 UTCUber black is ALWAYS less expensive in DTLA. (Still more than Waymo’s though)
M C
2025-12-18 20:07:35 +0000 UTCUnemployment didn’t even cover my rent when I was looking to go on it. Unemployment is a non-option in terms of survival for most Americans.
M C
2025-12-18 20:05:54 +0000 UTCIn regard to the phone/social media conversation/topic, I would like to express some of my thoughts, especially after recently reading “no longer human” and as gen z myself. (apologies if my response doesn't read well, my points are just festering thoughts I've had) Beyond phones and the internet being propagators of poor human behaviour, I believe they multiply an already growing “authenticity/culture/spirituality” crisis among young and old in capitalist societies. (By “authenticity,” I mean the relationship between inner reality our thoughts, subconscious, feelings, values/ideals, core self and outer expression: our words, actions, choices, appearance, class.) Growing up in modern society, we learn there can be and often is a fundamental dishonesty in most social interactions. A performative collective delusion, all for the “incentive,” online and irl. Progressing your career, building your education, curating social media, buying at a store, consuming, advertising, entertainment, competing, ignoring the homeless, being charitable to the homeless. If money isn't the incentive, we tokenize and commodify in other ways. Social favour, likes, outreach, education, “soul-searching.” We put on masks for personal gain or peer pressure and pretend we're authentic, normal humans. This constant masking creates a barrier/contradiction between our true selves and the world, making genuine connection difficult, even impossible. If you have true talent, passion, or authenticity, you're told to leverage those parts of you as a human for personal benefit and societal contribution. But this appropriates, and commodifies, authentic culture. Inauthenticity spreads as people copy the traits of success without copying what those traits represent, like playing music perfectly but without understanding the nuance/emotional context of the song. Worse, society has grown so comfortable with performance, fabricated experience, and result-oriented thinking that it embraces these inauthentic substitutes. We know the social media post is fabricated. We see nepotism in careers and professional sports. We watch governments fail to act for the people. We've witnessed the “go to school, work hard, find success” philosophy erode, the nuclear threat most forget about is still very much a threat. And we either try to escape, stop caring, or, we prefer it because it's predictable and effortless. Genuine emotion, passion, vulnerability become frightening or inconvenient. Without incentive, people won't pursue what's authentic to themselves. With incentive, they pursue what's inauthentic and try to imitate authenticity. On third spaces, beyond their physical removal, I personally think spaces where people can be truly authentic are vanishing. Spaces where race, gender, opinions don't define the interaction, where people can just be. Apart from a poker table or similar social games (where you can disassociate from the disassociation of being a “normal human” to finally feel normal), such spaces feel rare. The few remaining authentic spaces exist in the margins, often centred around activities that create temporary equality: the shared focus of a game, a sport, a craft. But even these are increasingly colonized by the performance economy streamed, monetized, turned into content. I don't have an answer. Or a well thought out conclusion, and these are already well established takes/philosophies. But I think society as a whole recognizing the mask is the first step to, maybe, more occasionally find authentic moments in our lives. Idk just me though, cooking or schizo?
tuggway
2025-12-18 03:39:53 +0000 UTCI think the only way to stop the brain rot of short form video content is to change the algorithm to promote educational stuff. If you ban it, people are going to try VPNs and move to different versions, but if you change it people will either learn something or stop scrolling. I don’t think we’re going to have a good solution per se, but maybe we just need something better than now.
Cat
2025-12-18 02:06:17 +0000 UTCI liked the Clip of Bret Weinstein saying that with UBI people would become listless, because there is no purpose Left (earlier purpose, recreation, has already been removed through the sexual tevolution)
Arne Holicki
2025-12-17 22:11:06 +0000 UTCPerhaps the most re-formative experiences of my life was in the summer two years ago. I went on a 14-day Caribbean cruise with some friends and on day ONE my cheap amazon waterproof case failed. Normally not a huge deal, but of course, the week before we left my screen had been turbo fucked by the pavement. Sure enough, we got back to the ship and my phone was toast. At first I was of course pretty upset at the whole situation, but what followed was potentially the best two weeks of my life. I spoke with new people and shared stories I would have never heard; made friends and actually learned about their lives and worries and hopes; I explored places I would have never endeavored to reach; and I saw staggering landscapes and the soft, candid moments of life between old friends I would have overlooked. All of the beautiful idiosyncrasies I would have been, had been, too distracted to notice before. I've never looked at my little joy thief the same way since. I know this might sound grandiose or dramatic, but it really felt like waking up. Just wanted to share, thank you. :)
Mister Mouse
2025-12-17 21:02:49 +0000 UTCI wanted to throw my opion into the ring. UBI is not a good first step. Great idea, but don't do it first. it should be houses & also public transportation. if you give ubi to a bunch of people it'llbe drained by all of our nihilistic spending. people deciding to buy a new hummer or a steam machine (me, I'd spend it poorly, i think) insteand of saving up for a house because
Growing Carrot
2025-12-17 20:26:04 +0000 UTCLoved the talk on short form media and the importance of boredom. I really liked hearing about changing your media diet and like progressing to less 'slop'. I always feel like I need to go cold turkey or 'just a little' and going from okay no reddit but yotube shorts, then less shorts, then whatever's next and how that can help giver you time to consider where you're at in life is really helpful.
Nick Montana
2025-12-17 19:37:54 +0000 UTCVr chat has face tracking I'm a long time denizen of it. Promise. Nothing meta has done puts a candle to vr chat somehow.
Red Dusk
2025-12-17 19:15:24 +0000 UTC
