Turn the page. The robots are waiting. But for once, they aren't in a hurry. The Logistics of Snow: Why the plow algorithm hates your cul-de-sac.
That is the magic of the "Bore-tech" era. We have stopped marveling at the Large Language Models (LLMs) and started weaponizing them against the mundane. Your email client didn't just filter spam this morning; it negotiated a reschedule for your dentist appointment with the receptionist’s AI. Two digital entities haggled over 2:30 PM versus 4:00 PM while you ate toast. Assorted Magazines - November 15 2024 -True PDF-
But perhaps that is the point.
We aren't leaving the platforms. We are just lying to them. Our "active" status is a bot we pay $3 a month to maintain. We only show up for the group chats. The feed is now a desert we cross to get to the oasis of DMs. The Last Page There is a theory in publishing that the November 15 issue is cursed. It’s too close to the holidays for serious thought, but too far from the New Year for reflection. It is the lost Thursday of the calendar. Turn the page
And so far? The co-author isn't trying to steal the plot. It's just trying to fix the typos. The Logistics of Snow: Why the plow algorithm
We spent the early part of the decade screaming into the void of chatbots. We asked them to write sonnets about our cats and got back plastic poetry. We demanded the death of the five-paragraph essay and were handed a mediocre B-minus.