Alex Merced 7/24/2026

The Filters We Build: Scams, Slop, and the Search for Signal, From Radio Ads to AI

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Table of Contents Filters Are Infrastructure, and They Have Two Jobs Radio: A Stranger’s Voice, and the First Modern Curators Television: Seeing Is Believing, and the Anchor as National Filter The Internet, Act One: Banner Blindness and the Rise of the Amateur Curator The Internet, Act Two: Manual Slop, Algorithmic Feeds, and the Newsletter Counterrevolution The AI Era: When Slop Learned to Make I

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