The week ended like a house settling. Nahui Ollin's views finally falling. Earth Day came and went while everyone scrolled. And Fight Club crossed $100M in rerelease the same week "FUCK META" trended as a meme.

This week's Friday brief: Byung-Chul Han's burnout society explains why we worship competence while suspecting it's obsolete — and Sidney Lumet's lighting technique in Network gives us the scene that captures exactly what it means to rage at a machine while feeding it.

We scroll "FUCK META" on Meta's platform. We stream our rebellion through the algorithm we despise. The ratings tick up. We are Howard Beale.

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