It used to be you could find an audience on the internet
by making stuff for people to look at
And if they liked it, then maybe
they’d sometimes come back for more
Now no one looks at anything on the internet at all
and they certainly don’t like it
And the only things that come back for more
are the insatiable robots we’ve built
that’ll eat it all up
eat everything all up
again and again and again
So they can vomit it back up later
half misremembered and all incoherent
to save us the pain of ever having to see
what was originally said
in its own time
and place
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Notes:
1. Written on July 18th, 2026
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