Evil Shit on the Internet: The Spinner

"The Spinner* is a service that enables you to subconsciously influence a specific person, by controlling the content on the websites he or she usually visits.The targeted person gets repetitively exposed to hundreds of items which are placed and disguised as editorial content.-https://www.thespinner.net/ What makes this creepy as all get-out is that when we think … Continue reading Evil Shit on the Internet: The Spinner

Standardized Thought

"From this [advertising] expert he learned that the key tool of the ad trade was to “standard[ize] thought by supplying the spectator with a ready-made visual image before he has time to conjure up an interpretation of his own.3 In that instant before the process of making sense was completed, a presupplied image and, subsequently, … Continue reading Standardized Thought