America’s AI Action Plan & the Culture Industries

What looks like an infrastructure strategy is actually a cultural rewrite that reframes creativity as policy-compliant output and storytelling as soft power.

Yes, yes — I know.

I owe you the Attention Economy series and the gaming intel drop. It’s coming. I swear on Sam Altman’s perfectly moisturised face.

But while I was delayed like a godless content goblin, Trump dropped the AI plan to end all AI plans.

If you think it’s just another innovation whitepaper, think again. It reads like The Art of the Deal re-…