Reposted by Charles Pidgeon
Did you know that the PR agency for #COP30 also works for fossil fuel companies like Shell?
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Charles Pidgeon
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PhD (DPhil) candidate at University of Oxford, English Faculty. Researching internet nonfiction books, cultural histories of information overwhelm, and the different metaphors we use for human versus machine cognition.
![Catherine Zhang, TCL’s vice president of content services and partnerships, then explained to the audience that TCL’s streaming strategy is to “offer a lean-back binge-watching experience” in which content passively washes over the people watching it. “Data told us that our users don’t want to work that hard,” she said. “Half of them don’t even change the channel.”
“We believe that CTV [connected TV] is the new cable,” she said. “With premium original content, precise ad-targeting capability, and an AI-powered, innovative engaging viewing experience, TCL’s content service will continue its double-digit growth next year.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cjfcz3t36f6nrprarkhkycxo/bafkreid3cypm4tfg5syj2iidhdq2ojmdpktvnmo6oduh6sa3zmya2iiyba)
![A screenshot of Wendy Liu’s book, Abolish Silicon Valley (2020), with the following quotes highlighted:
‘The problem is when these underdogs start to grow bigger. They may have begun their journey with a critique of the powerful, but it’s an essentially static critique that omits an explanation of why these powerful companies got to be the way they are. The establishment — the banks, the hotel chains, the taxi companies — are the bad guys, and the scrappy founders are the good guys, and that’s how it will be forever.’
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‘They don’t realise that their founding myth of disrupting the powerful no longer applies when they become the powerful ones themselves.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4az3a2dh3d2shvlefij2usi6/bafkreicpzt7zlxp2inq27xgmohsiwkjqj2tnzbtdv5ws6tammlaksxaaia)
