Chasing The Tail?
Are you playing the long or short game?
1/6/26
Mans last protected stronghold…. His own mind. Isaac Asimov The Second Foundation
Art is Analog…. Digital is content AKcidentalwriter
We are in a time when silence becomes a decision. AKcidentalwriter
For the protection of humanity going forward:
All A.I products need to have a independent human impact statement just like mining/oil companies must have a environmental impact statement. The A.I is using the human no differently than an oil or mining company uses the land of the earth.
It is now 2026 and I look around and observe folks have gotten so far away from humanity that now the so called experts on social media are talking about real and trust! I say huh!! These same types are talking A.I aka artificial intelligence. How real is that ? Where is the trust? All of that is outsourcing your human components to the machines. You are not the master key once you do that! You are chasing the tail and playing the short game when the game of life is a long one.
Many have given up the long game for the convenience of the short game which is constantly feeding your various human conditions. The Digerati is playing a very long game while inducing the humans to play the short game. This short game feeds the Digerati’s children.
I keep seeing how to scale, yet what is the Digerati pushing at us now….NICHE! Here is a paragraph in techcrunch.com article titled:
Social media follower counts have never mattered less in the creator economy.
Instead of go big or go home when I came up…. It is now go niche or go home.
Here is a direct quote… The prevalence of slop on social media has become enough of a threat that Merriam - Webster called ‘SLOP’ its word of the year. Over 94% of people are saying that social media is no longer social, and over half are apparently rotating time somewhere else. Apparently smaller niche communities that they know are real and they can talk to and interact with, like Strava, Linked In, and Substack.
I said huh! I burst out laughing. These are managers of Kai Cenat, Mr. Beast, Pew Die Pie and Charlie D’Amelio that have hundreds of millions of followers. I started laughing because ‘The Digerati’ have the rank and file believing they are up next! Billions of people up next….Now please imagine that…. The article said this also which I burst out laughing…. As social media becomes increasingly reliant on algorithmic feeds, creators are navigating a new normal: Just because you post something doesn’t mean your followers see it! I burst out laughing again. Does this writer have any historical context! When I wrote book one of my trilogy Live Digital or be Irrelevant in 2017 and book two 2020 - 2021 this was happening already!
This is folks chasing their tail! I also will reference another column ‘How We Live In Repeat’. Apparently a study from North Western University found the trust in creators increased 21% from 2024 - 2025. So it appears that folks are going back to trusting real humans that they now have real life experiences. All I could do was laugh!!!
For me this all lunacy! The fact people trust some chatbot immensely, I just shrug my shoulders. I do not use A.I products…. Perhaps I should? But for what? More speed…. More efficiency… More quality? I am not here to feed the Digerati’s beast. I am here to publish meaningful columns that make people go hmm… I am not outsourcing my mind to the Digerati! Our brain is so much more than their products. Just start utilizing your mind! How about more people try that!
—_____________________ Addendum 7/16/26__________________________
When I came across this information defines my feelings and written reality. Why I have been in attack mode on the Digerati because of what I am about to state to you…. We have been told that we need to give these machines to our children. The need to get them placed in schools… Enough of the preamble:
In 2010, months after he had raised the tablet at a Apple Conference Steve Job's took a call from a N.Y Times reporter who asked if his kids loved the tablet aka Ipad? Apparently they hadn’t used it. He said We limit how technology is used by kids at home! Books are on the table and history in the air, no screen no where.
Down the road from Apple sits the Waldorf School of Peninsula, which advertises itself as a screen free education in Silicon Valley. The children learn knitting.
Now please pause and digest this before you go on….
In closing…. Artificial intelligence… Yet we want real trust! Stop with the cliches and chasing the tail! Speed isn’t everything! Quantity isn’t superior! Efficiency is not human… It is robotic. Time to pause in 2026 and march your way back to lost humanity. The time is now. Your future is now.
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Disclaimer:
a. This column by the AKcidentalwriter for the periodical Cultural Philosophical Fireworks and may not be used to train A.I.
b. There is absolutely no A.I utilized here. Only H.I aka Human Intuitiveness.
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