Episode: Roasting the Sovereign AI Slop

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Two critics dissect "After Slop: The Coming Age of Sovereign AI" — a 5,000-word manifesto on aesthetic inflation, cognitive colonization, and the sovereignty divide.

Discussed in this episode:

→ "Slop" as Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year

→ Christie's $728K AI art auction and the Provenance Premium

→ Holly Herndon's "Spawn" — sovereign AI in practice

→ Prada and Tod's "Artisanal Intelligence"

→ Varoufakis's Technofeudalism: Cloudalists vs Cloud Serfs

→ Cognitive Colonization — thinking inside someone else's container

→ Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, and the private darkroom

→ Is Sovereign AI liberation or luxury?

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After Slop — silasyu.substack.com

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Shadow AI. Enshittification. The Lethal Trifecta. And why sovereignty is the only exit.

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Your AI hired to protect you is now the one letting the burglars in. Charon and Aoede dissect a 2026 cybersecurity report, the lethal trifecta of agentic AI, the enshittification lifecycle, and why brutalist design might be the only honest rebellion left.

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"Is your digital life a luxury hotel, or a prison?"

we argue that true freedom looks a lot like manual labor.

It's time to stop renting convenience and start building your fortress.

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In this episode:

The $2.6 trillion AI assistant fantasy

Why AI hardware keeps dying

Notion vs. Evernote vs. Obsidian — a philosophical war

The hallucination problem no one wants to fix

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If the cloud evaporated tomorrow, what could you carry out in your hands?

In this episode:

- The "luxury prison" of modern SaaS—why convenience is a trap

- Digital hoarding vs. true knowledge

- The Monolith Protocol: building fossils for the future

- The Fire Test: the only question that matters

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In this episode:

- The death of "Slop" and what it means for creators

- Cloud Serfs vs. Sovereign Minds

- Who really owns your "second brain"?

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