I've been spending a lot of time thinking about the particular kind of humor that emerged, I think, in the 2000s. Digital video is at least one big source of that brand of humor, that absurdist. It's very weird that a younger child might have more absurdist sensibilities than a wise and old person like us.
David and Tamler deliver a PODCAST episode, one of many that comes from the INTERNET, that you’ll probably listen to through Air Pods or some other kind of WIRELESS HEADPHONES as you go about your day.
(Incidentally, the topic of the episode is Marshall McLuhan on how new forms of media profoundly shape our experience and identity, but in a way that makes us focus on the content of the specific medium and not the medium itself.)
Plus, can algorithms help to optimize our well-being, and Steven Pinker transforms his ideas into a new asset class of NFTs.
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