2026: The Year We Stopped Trusting the Glitch

FUNK !T | Mindful Media & Communication · Jan 3, 2026 · 15m

If you use AI to write an email, and I use AI to summarize it... did communication actually happen?

Or did two piles of code just perform a handshake while we both stared at a screen, hallucinating productivity?

In this episode, we argue that the Dead Internet Theory isn't just about bots on Twitter anymore. It has come for your inbox. We are witnessing the industrialization of communication, where human interaction is replaced by a "Zero-Human Feedback Loop."

We break down the sociology of 2026 using three critical frameworks:

Goodhart’s Law & The Zombie Loop: How optimizing for…