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black mirror appears in 5 chunks across 5 episodes, from 2024-05-20 to 2025-06-09.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 5/20/24 (2024-05-20), with 1 observation on this topic.
Semantically it travels with operating system, tech industry, and schelling point, while by chunk count it sits between knowhow and cory doctorow; its yearly rank moved from #185 in 2024 to #176 in 2025.
Over time
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Range2024-05-20 to 2025-06-09Mean1.0 per episodePeak1 on 2024-05-20
Observations
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Showing 5 observations sorted from latest to earliest.
The Black Mirror episode Smithereens hit me hard.
I watched it on a long-haul flight.
Maybe it was just the altitude making me more susceptible to hokey things.
No ma...
...nd users' context to their model.
If you haven't seen it, make sure you see the Black Mirror season 7 episode Common People for a chilling illustration of the importance of this.
It asks the question "if you subscribe to your memory what happ...
...ost people are too busy to get more than a superficial understanding of things.
Black Mirror is a useful, nearly comprehensive compendium of different dystopias (with a few more subtle ones thrown in).
People in the tech industry tend to be m...