The Quuuuuill

it’s 7 card monti but with the gambling replaced with strategic decision making. the fact that lootboxes aren’t considered gambling, but removing gambling from poker is, it just puts on display how the big corporations are desperate to keep us locked into their entertainment machines and away from innovative art

mailbox.org and posteo are my recs

still. it’s the year 2025. XDG_CONFIG should be the standard assumption

• subprime attention crisis
• nico neumann’s 2019 talk at programmatic i/o
• “data suggests surprising shift: duopoly not all-powerful” eMarketer 2018
• financial markets and online advertising: reevaluating the dotcom bubble
• “wanamaker was wrong-the vast majority of advertising is wasted” forbes 2016
• “56% of digital ads served are never seen, says google” AdAge 2014

to start

read the subprime attention crisis. ads markets have gotten extremely uneffective

this is an act of desperation by the digital ad markets. they have to innovate new types of ad to sell because more and more the only ads that actually work even a little bit are personal testimony and billboards, neither of which the digital ad markets actually sell. we are currently experiencing an economic collapse in the advertising space which is driving the ad markets to use their propaganda machines for less and less scrupulous purposes. ever wonder why there’s so much right wing bullshit in your youtube ads now? because that shit didn’t sell razors or soap or mattresses or whatever. but it CAN make people very scared and upset

Yes. Using kids to drive engagement on YouTube is exploitative. Parents who do that are exploiting their children

Its exploiting child labor and the impulsive brain chemistry of adolescence.