TED Radio Hour

How the creator economy is making you talk like the internet

I started noticing how I would reroute my language around platform constraints. Can you give me an example of that? Like, what? Yeah, well, you can't say the word kill on TikTok. I mean, I guess you can, but it's suppressed. Your video's gonna be shown to fewer people, so people turn to alternatives like Unalive.

TED Radio Hour

How the creator economy is making you talk like the internet

I started noticing how I would reroute my language around platform constraints. You can't say the word kill on TikTok. I mean, I guess you can, but it's suppressed. Your video is going to be shown to fewer people, so people turn to alternatives like Unalive.

Diet TBPN

AI Agents Hack Hugging Face, White House Promotes Science’s Golden Age | Diet TBPN

Hugging face had to use a Chinese model to defend themselves because the American models refused to help even though it was the American models that were doing the hacking in the first place.

Book of the Day

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei on political censorship in the West

Any information being covered is in favor of whoever covers. What they afraid is did they do the right job or is their control legitimate? So, they have to cover up all the information.

Fresh Air

Banned books, shocking art & the birth of the culture wars

It starts with a really intense sense of grievance or performance of grievance that other people expressing their rights, essentially other people's speech is oppressing you, that other people's point of view, that you're, you know, Alice Moore says this flat out. It's not that I don't want my child learning X, Y, and Z. I don't want my child to even know what they are, you know?

The Week

Iran, IPO Mania, and the New American Dream | The Week

You know what binds all of them is rather their dislike of and fear of the language of the liberal world. In other words, the language of rights, the language of rule of law, the language of separation of powers. You know, all of these are states that are seeking to create a kind of total environment where the regime or the leader or the ruling party controls all media, all conversation.

Dwarkesh Podcast

How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

the authorities and censors are always worried about the exact wrong things given 20/20 hindsight.