This is something I noticed some time ago: popular culture has been steadily homogenized and dumbed…

mostlysignssomeportents : Model collapse ALT If you&rsquo;d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here&rsquo;s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/12/insurance-value-of-biodiversity/#model-collapse One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things together (showing that two…