the information age goes insane

Before I get scary on you today, Deezers, let me just say that Google Image searching* “Neymar with braces” is maybe one of the most delightful things you could do for your overall well-being today.

~A sample~

Anyway, now your spirits are slightly lifted, allow this Medium post from tech writer James Bridle chill you to your soul: Something is wrong on the internet. Remember how I said yesterday that the internet has fucked up a lot of things? Add kid’s entertainment — and our kids, by extension — to the list.

“Someone or something or some combination of people and things is using YouTube to systematically frighten, traumatise, and abuse children, automatically and at scale, and it forces me to question my own beliefs about the internet, at every level.”

With all the terrifying shit coming down the pipes for Facebook, Google, Twitter and more, this post is a concise summary of just how all the ~systems~ and ~algorithms~ have become a total information nightmare runaway train, and we’re all stuck on it.

“This is a deeply dark time, in which the structures we have built to sustain ourselves are being used against us — all of us — in systematic and automated ways. It is hard to keep faith with the network when it produces horrors such as these…”

I’m honestly shivering. Where on earth can we go from here?

*Yes apparently these kinds of things are my job now and it’s AMAZING.

Like Deez Links? Forward to ma girl Natty Cheng ‘cause tonight’s her NIGHT.