a kangaroo boards a plane

(ai) and a post-truth internet

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May 30, 2025

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Polygon had a big week! Tune into Dumb B!tch Hour on twitter next week to get the ELI5 breakdown from Mr. Marc Boiron himself, CEO at Polygon Labs.

This week a viral video got me thinking about the post-truth era we are living in. A reel of a ‘service’ kangaroo trying to board a commercial flight hit big numbers and had the comments asking chat, is this real?

This very good boy was in fact AI-generated.

Having not caught that initially, did make me sick to my core.

I blame this influencer and her horse dog from last week’s internet discourse for my lack of media literacy.

Sexy influencer brings huge dog as a service animal on flight — here’s how passengers reacted

Frequent flyers of the friendly skies are not feeling this fox and her huge hound.

The line between real and fake has been blurred since the beginning of the internet, but between the season finale of Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal with headlines like:

And brands being willing to do anything to cut through the noise:

It feels as though we’ve fully entered the post-truth era, where the bit is all we have, and the comedy lies in the not knowing.

Now, I’m all for a bit. And have no interest in asserting a moral stance here. But what I do see, and what the data does seem to show

is that in the face of our post-truth era, nihilism becomes a friend, and hope is harder to come by.

So let this little newsletter serve as a reminder that holding onto hope for a thriving future and finding A truth is far easier when you're grounded in the real world, paying close attention, and believing what you see with your own two eyes.

Or just go off and post your truth.