We are fighting a war against zero-click content. The giants want you to stay on their properties. They want the discourse to flow through their pipes. If we are not careful, the role of the independent webzine will shrink from "source of truth" to "training data validator."
We are witnessing a paradox. The tools that were supposed to set us free—generative AI, cloud infrastructure, and automation—are now the primary mechanisms of enclosure. The digital frontier is being fenced in, not by barbed wire, but by proprietary algorithms and subscription paywalls. redwebzine.org latest
This is primitive accumulation for the 21st century. Our collective cultural memory is being privatized to generate probabilistic text for Silicon Valley’s paying customers. When you ask an AI to "write a critique of neoliberalism," it regurgitates a pastiche of stolen voices, flattening radical thought into a bland, centrist smoothie. We are fighting a war against zero-click content
The next time you want to understand the world, do not prompt the bot. Read a book. Argue at a diner. Write a letter to the editor. Write a bad poem. Write a good one. If we are not careful, the role of