words mean things

...which kids love and adults hate but they talk about in this feature how they've set up a room in the the place makes Cocomelon where they will have a kid watching the show and set up next to it is another screen that shows an adult just doing normal household tasks, just sort of wandering around doing whatever you do in house and if the child becomes distracted from Cocomelon by what the adult is doing, they go back to the edit and they amp up the interestingness that cuts the whatever makes a Cocomelon episode interesting and it was so dystopic right that the level of engineering I mean the hyper saturation of the colors the constant cuts and so I mean a little bit like a hyper sugary cereal or whatever what his system is learning to find worth paying attention to... right, like how hard it is for the world to measure up to that...as it is for me - I'm going to bring this to me in a second, I'm not just putting this on little kids - but I know every time I put him there, it is training, right, it is training what is interesting and what is not

The entire interview is worth a listen, that particular part was just so horrifying. They do not, in their discussion, "blame" parents and the interview is actually about the act of reading and consumption of information, not just about kids. But good god. It's like the methods used by designers of gambling establishments to keep gamblers in the room, losing money.

Note: the transcript I found is riddled with errors, clearly an AI transcript with little to no human intervention, and annoyingly the audio connected to each paragraph actually starts 2 paragraphs before the play button for it, but it is a way to, no irony intended, skim the podcast and listen to particular parts of it either again or to see if you want to commit to listening to the entire thing.

 I try not to make new year resolutions as it is a sure fire way to NOT have something happen. I'll consciously sabotage my efforts. I do attempt to identify interesting and useful things I can do tho. That's different than "I'll lose 10 lbs" or "I'll run every day" (as if!) so...here goes

I read and consume a lot of interesting information. I want to, imperfectly tho it may be, document what I take from my learning. This feeds nicely into my desire to write. Who knows, maybe the act of writing up what I see and learn will improve my actual writing. It will certainly make me more present in the moment

So...here goes

PS I've forgotten how tags work here...it has been far too long