https://deliisle.com/tags/social-media/ Recent content in Social Media on DELI ISLAND Hugo en-us Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://deliisle.com/posts/polemics-and-essays/the-blue-or-red-button-dilemma-and-the-hantavirus-cruise-ship/ Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://deliisle.com/posts/polemics-and-essays/the-blue-or-red-button-dilemma-and-the-hantavirus-cruise-ship/ <p>Recently a new hypothetical moral dilemma made the rounds online, the red button vs blue button dilemma. The dilemma posits that everyone in the world is privately given a choice between a red button and blue button. They are told that if more than 50% press the blue button, everyone lives, but if less than 50% press the blue button, only those who press the red will be left alive. Shortly after this moral dilemma went viral, an outbreak of a deadly virus was discovered on a cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The popular response to this outbreak seemed to bleed into the discourse around the moral dilemma.</p> https://deliisle.com/posts/polemics-and-essays/2024-12-17-the-virtualization-singularity/ Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://deliisle.com/posts/polemics-and-essays/2024-12-17-the-virtualization-singularity/ <p>In the virtual sphere, twitch streamers debate with academics, comedians converse with the president, adult film stars do stand up, every single sphere has converged into a single point. There are no longer the categories of comedy, political, advertisement, pornography, etc. Everything has collapsed into one point, a simultaneous and continuous consumption of the virtual. Effectively zero distance, it has all converged into your phone screen. All at the same time, GTA 5 gameplay, a Reddit text-to-speech video, a factory accident in China, a podcast clip, a Wendy’s commercial, a girl dancing in tight yoga pants, news about the election, a recipe for a triple wagyu smashburger. All these occur simultaneously in the same space. </p> https://deliisle.com/posts/polemics-and-essays/2024-12-04-spotify-wrapped-and-the-social-panopticon/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://deliisle.com/posts/polemics-and-essays/2024-12-04-spotify-wrapped-and-the-social-panopticon/ <p>Today the Spotify Wrapped playlists have been rolled out on the app (as well as the analogous thing for Apple music I guess, if you use that). Of course, being the beacon of taste and sophistication that I am, mine is beyond reproach. I have listened to the exact calculated permutation of songs, at exactly the right minutes, such as to bring about the optimum, the ideal of musical consumption. Utility maximization, with the utility curve tangential along the market line of all auditory choice. Internal Lagrangian functions constantly calculating to determine what to listen to, and when, and in conjunction with other decisions of taste in a constant network which optimizes sophistication, culminating in a final playlist upon which all may look in admiration. Finely displayed in the medium of my Instagram story, peering through the protective glass of your phone screen, masterfully framed by your phone case, like an artwork on display. It even tells you the amount of minutes listened, the measure of time effort put into this final display, effort then collapsed into a singular .webp image.</p>