The GUDEA Playbook: How Venture Capital is Building the Next Generation of Astroturfing
January 5, 2026
What happens when all “data-driven research” is actually just expensive PR marketing?
What happens when all “data-driven research” is actually just expensive PR marketing?
How Gen Z’s nostalgia became a top recruitment tool for right-wing extremism online.
Or, how fandom went from creating to constraining over years of online corruption.
How social media platforms monetize loneliness in the age of AI.
We are living through the most connected era in human history, yet somehow we have never been more alone.
Recommendation systems are the high-speed trains of extremist railways.
Somewhere between 2016 and now, we collectively decided that being kind meant being weak, and that having empathy was actually performative.
Bridging 90s-era scare tactics with today’s fandom micro-dramas.
An essay on obsession, projection, and the parasocial rabbit hole.
The importance of digital kindness in the age of conflict culture.
