slop

The people jokingly called it pig slop.

Mark Zuckerberg is not interested in compensating you after taking all the photos, videos, and posts that made his company so successful and valuable; there’re always more slop for the trough.

If everyone just accepted this, Congress could’ve taken care of its one piece of business in a day, and then returned home to eat slop at diners or milk goats or whatever it is they do to get reelected.

The Trump-rally shooting, however, occurred against the backdrop of a fractured digital environs flooded with poorly regulated social networks, high-quality videos and livestreams, sophisticated disinformation operations, artificial intelligence slop, and easily edited, easily transmitted memes that were posted and reposted and reshared across Instagram, TikTok, X, Truth Social, and beyond.

One is to inform the platform about what we like or what riles us up so that the company running the platform can serve us the right kind of slop to keep us at the trough and sell us to advertisers.