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{{a|tech|}}So here is the thing I don’t understand. Where are the the buy-side bots?  

Everything we know about information revolution tells us they cannot be far away. [[Wikipedia]], crowd-sourced and free-for-all, vanquished Encyclopaedia Britannica. [[Reddit]] vanquished the hedgies. Yet, still, we all seem to be on a hiding to nothing from the monstrous technology conglomerates and their [[artificial intelligence|artificially intelligent]] catnip social media engines, systematically exploiting humankind’s innate horror of boredom — filling our heads with clangorous, quadrophonic noise that pleases us because it obscures the abysmal ''silence'' that otherwise would predominate — thereby aggregating, parsing tracking our every move, anticipating our every thought, nudging our preferences around as if we are cups on some giant [[Ouija board]], from it extracting some magical well of human weakness into which it relentlessly jams its products, thereby consigning us by degrees to some stale, mute, digital oblivion.