Structural Dissonance Defines The Internet

This week we’re going deep on a term Luke coined a few episodes ago: “structural dissonance”. It’s that feeling you get seeing images of the invasion of Ukraine in the same content feed as memes, viral animals, lifestyle influencers, or video game playthroughs. It defines the internet, but it also defines kind of our entire current existence. It’s confusing and weird and is breaking our brains and making it harder to understand actual reality. As you can tell, this week’s episode is very light.

SHOW NOTES

More about the Doodles NFTs at SXSW

Even more about the Doodles NFTs

Ryan’s previous write-up on the Something Awful 9/11 thread

The Something Awful 9/11 archive

The Pew Research piece on the Arab Spring

Emerson T. Brooking’s tweet

r/VolunteersForUkraine

Will Beating Cancer

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