{"id":22946,"date":"2025-06-20T08:23:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22946"},"modified":"2025-06-20T08:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:23:05","slug":"amusing-ourselves-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/20\/amusing-ourselves-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Amusing ourselves to death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oof\u2014kind of a gut punch from Chuck Palahniuk, which applies equally well to social media &amp; to AI mind rot (see also &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/27\/kafkaesque-workplace-theater\/\">Kafkaesque Workplace Theater<\/a>\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Chuck.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"554\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Chuck-1024x554.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Chuck-1024x554.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Chuck-300x162.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Chuck-768x416.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Chuck.jpeg 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oof\u2014kind of a gut punch from Chuck Palahniuk, which applies equally well to social media &amp; to AI mind rot (see also &#8220;Kafkaesque Workplace Theater\u201d):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22948,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22946\/revisions\/22948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}