Stupid Anthropology has birthed from the ashes of The Right Can’t Read. We have leapt from the desiccated skull like a weird zombie Athena to sometimes ask stupid questions, sometimes our stupid ideas, sometimes our stupid screaming into the void. Join Aaron, Robert, and Jonny as we explore whatever diseased questions pop into our collapsing brains. Questions such as: What’s the deal with selling out? Who are the worst people that came on Oprah’s show? What’s the deal with airline food?
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Stupid Anthropology has birthed from the ashes of The Right Can’t Read. We have leapt from the desiccated skull like a weird zombie Athena to sometimes ask stupid questions, sometimes our stupid ideas, sometimes our stupid screaming into the void. Join Aaron, Robert, and Jonny as we explore whatever diseased questions pop into our collapsing brains. Questions such as: What’s the deal with selling out? Who are the worst people that came on Oprah’s show? What’s the deal with airline food?
Aaron brings Robert and Rachel through the horrors of venture capital, Meta's quarterly reports, and the enshittification of the web.
Music by Daniel Griggs.
READ THIS STUFF:
A funny Tweet about how shitty the Internet is.
How Venture Capital Works, Harvard Business Review
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions, Harvard Business Review
Competition is for Losers, Peter Thiel in the Wall Street Journal
Facebook's culpability in genocide
NBC News
Council on Foreign Relations
The Guardian
Meta's financial report
The Supreme Court Could Destroy the Internet Next Week, Legal Eagle
How to Ditch Facebook Without Losing Your Friends (or Family, Customers, or Communities), Cory Doctorow and the EFF
TikTok's enshittification, Cory Doctorow
Content Moderation is Infosec, Cory Doctorow
A series of studies on the ease with which tech companies spread misinformation
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740703/twitter-algorithm-right-wing-amplification-study
https://www.businessinsider.com/transphobia-ted-kaczynski-tiktok-algorithm-right-wing-self-radicalization-2021-11?op=1
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/26/facebook-conservatives-2020-421146
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1536504218766547
https://www.brookings.edu/research/echo-chambers-rabbit-holes-and-ideological-bias-how-youtube-recommends-content-to-real-users/
https://www.wired.com/story/right-wing-fake-news-more-engagement-facebook/
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/facebook-twitter-don-t-censor-conservatives-they-hire-promote-them-ncna1245308
https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/10/more-internal-documents-show-how-facebooks-algorithm-prioritized-anger-and-posts-that-triggered-it/
The Internet's video focus is based on a lie, Slate
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things, Catherynne M. Valente
Social Media and Algorithms, PBS Nova
Stupid Anthropology
Stupid Anthropology has birthed from the ashes of The Right Can’t Read. We have leapt from the desiccated skull like a weird zombie Athena to sometimes ask stupid questions, sometimes our stupid ideas, sometimes our stupid screaming into the void. Join Aaron, Robert, and Jonny as we explore whatever diseased questions pop into our collapsing brains. Questions such as: What’s the deal with selling out? Who are the worst people that came on Oprah’s show? What’s the deal with airline food?
