one idle thought from the last couple of days, where i've had to think about ChatGPT a bit for work, maybe it's obvious, but it probably presages a new era of what browsing the internet looks like. dissensus obviously has a throwback infrastucture (which is part of the appeal, i'm not saying throwback to suggest that it's a bad way to do things). you can see these archeological layers in the internet already. and the internet is the biggest thing going on culturally, there's not even a close rival, all the momentum has gone out of the forms of cultural production that dominated the 50s-2000s period. AI just feels fundemental in how we interact with our computers and our phones. the speed of internet innovation has totally done a number on the older forms that everyone on here is into (music films etc), there's no energy in it or huge financial flows now.