How Instagram and AI continue to shape and converge beauty standards. «It would be ideal, maximally profitable, for the tech and beauty industries if the gaze that emerges from the face learns to seek nothing but its own reflection, and if the gaze that looks at the face learns to stop seeking anything strictly human at all.»

From Weekly Filet #579, in July 2026.

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