‘Executed for creating an AI poster for your burger restaurant’: Woke 3.0 visions captivate social media

According to social media, this week’s midterms are ushering in a new era: Woke 3.0. For the uninitiated, the internet has broken down the dynamics of American politics in the 2020s into a few distinct eras. There was Woke 1.0 at the start of the decade, associated with far-left social movements of the time. As the country leaned toward conservatism in the mid-2020s, online commentators argued that Democrats responded by moving into Woke 2.0, a shift that New York City Councilman Chi Ossé def...