📚 References & Lore
- Ray-Ban Meta Glasses — The AR Ad Delivery System on Your Face
- Augmented Reality — Workplace Surveillance, Courtesy of Your Employer
- Fiduciary Duty — The Legal Cover for Doing Whatever You Want
- Lost — The Polar Bear, the Plot Holes, and the Ending Nobody Asked For
- JJ Abrams — Mystery Box Storytelling & the Art of Dropping Threads
- Vapes — Flavored, Kid-Targeted, and Somehow Still Legal
- Kratom & 7-Hydroxymitragynine — The Gas Station Opioid Nobody Talks About
- The Addiction Economy — Subscriptions, Gambling, Microtransactions
- U2's Forced iPhone Album — Consumer Manipulation as Marketing
- UAP / Alien Disclosure — Headlines as Distraction
- MicroStrategy & Bitcoin — Shareholder Pressure and Debt-Backed Crypto
- AI Trickle-Down — The New Version of an Old Lie
- Parks & Recreation — The Leslie Knope We Never Got in Real Politics
- The Departed — Courage, Power, and Who Actually Has Skin in the Game
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AR glasses aren't a gadget. They're a data-harvesting, ad-delivery system for your face — and once your employer hands you a pair, it's surveillance with a logo on it. The Captain and Mr. Green start there and don't really stop.
Topics include Meta's slow irrelevance and what replaces it, the fiduciary duty excuse for doing whatever shareholders want, JJ Abrams' mystery box problem and why Lost's polar bear still doesn't have an answer, kid-targeted flavored vapes, John Oliver's deep dive on kratom and the 7OH products quietly sold at gas stations, the full addiction economy of subscriptions, gambling, and microtransactions, the U2 album Apple force-installed on your phone, alien disclosure headlines as a distraction from the economy, a computer wrongly flagging a driver's license as suspended, Bitcoin shareholder pressure on MicroStrategy, and AI trickle-down claims that sound a lot like the old kind.
They call it what it is: the extraction economy. Then they talk about Parks & Rec, power, and who actually has the courage to risk anything.