This week feels overwhelming on purpose.

Venezuela. Iran. Greenland. ICE. Everything at once, no time to think.
That’s not chaos. That’s a media feint.

In this episode of FUNK !T, I break down how power today works through attention overload, spectacle, and exhaustion. From Trump’s Venezuela theatrics to Iran’s internet blackouts and the sudden obsession with Greenland, we’re looking at geopolitics as psychopolitics: not controlling what you think, but how tired you are while thinking.

Media theory, martial arts logic, and just enough sarcasm to keep your guard up.

It is January 6, 2026. Three days ago, the US captured a head of state.

This should be the most serious news story of the decade. But if you look at your phone, you aren't seeing history. You're seeing a roast.

You're seeing deepfakes of Nicolás Maduro crying in a puddle of baby oil. You're seeing his propaganda cartoon, "Super Bigote," getting beat up by a Fortnite character. You are seeing a geopolitical earthquake filtered through a Snapchat lens.

Welcome to The Meme Coup.

In this episode, we break down the media theory behind the chaos. The US didn't just execute a regime change; they executed a Vibe Shift. We explore how they are using "Memetic Warfare" to strip a dictator of his dignity, turn a war into content, and distract the world with absurd spectacles like buying Greenland.

The Syllabus:

• The Death of the Real (Baudrillard): Why the AI deepfakes feel "truer" than the official news photos.

• Context Collapse (Danah Boyd): How linking Maduro to the Diddy memes turned a political prisoner into a tabloid joke.

• The Society of the Spectacle (Debord): Why the "Greenland Purchase" is the ultimate distraction.

The revolution will not be televised. It will be shitposted.

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:

1. Goodhart’s Law & The Zombie Loop: How optimizing for "responsiveness" turned us into biological API keys for our own tools.

2. The Hyperreal (Jean Baudrillard): Why AI-generated empathy feels so repulsive. We explore the "Uncanny Valley of Vulnerability" and why we are starting to crave friction over flow.

3. Costly Signaling Theory: Why the elite are going back to analog. In a world of infinite digital content, "face-to-face" is the new luxury good.

The glitch isn't the problem. Believing the glitch is meaning is.