https://thejaymo.net/2021/03/13/301-2110-the-kraken-in-the-social-seas/ Jay Springett lives here on the Internet Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:34:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://thejaymo.net/2021/03/13/301-2110-the-kraken-in-the-social-seas/#comment-99863 Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:34:24 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=13040#comment-99863 […] We collectively learnt nothing from gamergate, and instead mainstreamed the pile on during the Trump era and we are where we are.. But I can’t be bothered with all that. Instead I’ll direct you towards Jaymo’s first internet law: […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2021/03/13/301-2110-the-kraken-in-the-social-seas/#comment-99841 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:20:45 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=13040#comment-99841 […] the machine is a good way to get followers and traction. The kraken loves it. People intuitively know the machine will eat them, but they do it […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2021/03/13/301-2110-the-kraken-in-the-social-seas/#comment-99605 Sun, 29 Dec 2024 10:39:21 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=13040#comment-99605 […] To speak of the worst people once again. You would have thought that after two whole years of burning out their amygdalas 24/7, they would be weary of further glueing themselves to the inauthentic internet. If continued they will lose their souls. To be on social media right now, following, tweeting, having opinions, will see one’s soul sucked out to feed the machine. The Golden Throne perhaps The Kraken that churns the social seas. […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2021/03/13/301-2110-the-kraken-in-the-social-seas/#comment-32476 Sun, 17 Sep 2023 18:52:36 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=13040#comment-32476 […] the boundless ocean of the social seas, where algorithms govern the ebb and flow of tides and winds whip fleeting trends, the Artist must […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2021/03/13/301-2110-the-kraken-in-the-social-seas/#comment-29963 Mon, 28 Aug 2023 08:02:07 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=13040#comment-29963 […] For the best part of a decade, people have been making content for an algorithm, not the audience. Worse, they haven’t been creating things for themselves. So if the feeds can no longer be relied upon to put content in front of new eyeballs then people are free to make the things that they want to make. Rather than making things that float well at the frothy surface of the social seas. […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2021/03/13/301-2110-the-kraken-in-the-social-seas/#comment-14368 Sat, 04 Feb 2023 21:44:26 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=13040#comment-14368 […] The home screen is a shoreline the artist must cast their work out from. A message in a bottle to be carried off, into the swell of a platform’s social seas.   […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2021/03/13/301-2110-the-kraken-in-the-social-seas/#comment-1101 Sat, 23 Jul 2022 19:10:46 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=13040#comment-1101 […] half life of a tweet is […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2021/03/13/301-2110-the-kraken-in-the-social-seas/#comment-1096 Sat, 23 Jul 2022 18:33:11 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=13040#comment-1096 […] The web is a place to that should be explored. You have to activity  engage in the ancient practice of web surfing. Rather than waiting for interesting thing to wash up on the algorithmically mediated social shoreline. […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2021/03/13/301-2110-the-kraken-in-the-social-seas/#comment-899 Sun, 17 Jul 2022 12:31:44 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=13040#comment-899 […] My 2019 post on why people should stop writing Twitter threads and start a blog frequently still shows up in my stats. It’s been read 80+ times in 2022 so far alone. I wonder how many of those great threads on Twitter directly after the 2019 election are still receiving views and impressions? (The half life of a tweet is 30mins) […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2021/03/13/301-2110-the-kraken-in-the-social-seas/#comment-380 Sat, 23 Oct 2021 19:06:07 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=13040#comment-380 […] March of this year I mentioned that my essay collection “Your Attention is Sovereign” from a few years ago had […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2021/03/13/301-2110-the-kraken-in-the-social-seas/#comment-294 Sun, 18 Apr 2021 21:30:55 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=13040#comment-294 […] The Kraken in the Social Seas […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2021/03/13/301-2110-the-kraken-in-the-social-seas/#comment-277 Sun, 14 Mar 2021 16:39:36 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=13040#comment-277 […] The Kraken in the Social Seas […]

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