Banger of a read, neatly tying various narratives about the cost-of-living-online crisis — enshittification, AI slopification, dead internet theory — into a grander story about the internet becoming a hostile, maddening environment.
Reposted from Jacob Silverman
For the FT, I wrote an essay about why the daily experience of the Internet keeps getting worse, tipping us into madness and conflict. I gather ideas about slop, enshittification, and dead internet theory under what I call "the hostile Internet."
www.ft.com/content/5d06...

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