"Subcultures are commodified to maintain the status quo. In his influential book Subculture: Meaning and Style, Dick Hebdige explained how capitalism and dominant ideologies do this to dismantle subcultural rebellion, outlining two tactics of doing so: firstly, by converting subcultural symbols (fashion, music, etc) into mass-produced objects, and secondly by dominant groups (eg the media or government) labelling and redefining ‘deviant’ behaviour to make it acceptable enough to be integrated into the mainstream (eg by making something ‘cool’)."
Two scientists, Dr. Miyabe Shields and Dr. Riley Kirk, are leveraging TikTok and Instagram to educate the public on cannabis pharmacology, gathering data from thousands of respondents on their experiences with cannabis.
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, released a web crawler called Bytespider that scrapes online content at a much faster rate than competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic. This aggressive scraping is aimed at improving ByteDance's generative AI models.
