Robert Reich has got this for team librul. Get 'em Bobby!
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That means posts that are shared, right?
Right-wingers are anything but silent. Forcing their thoughts on everyone at all times is an integral part of their behavior. Sometimes it feels like self-righteous virtue-signaling (they think it’s virtue), but maybe it’s more like cultish identity politics. Anyway, I bet the average conservative/right-winger shares 10x as many political links as the average liberal/progressive.
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Oh no what a big threat. Please don’t go that would be terrible…
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Also it will literally never quit Europe lol
Snap take the over for all my money.
omg plz leave, Facebook
Stop don’t comeback
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These people are constantly sharing this shit because - in absence of beliefs that align with reality - they need constant validation in order to maintain equilibrium. The world’s falling apart because of the idiot you put in charge? Get a few likes on a meme about cancel culture, and you can be reassured that you are on the right side of things.
Social media, as an avenue for circumventing cognitive dissonance, seems to be engendering a decent portion of society that is essentially free from objective truth. While North Korea can control their populace by restricting access to the information they don’t want seen, the rest of the world can accomplish similar ends just by flooding us with the information they do want seen. We’ve reached the point where the powers-at-be don’t have to create a reality that keeps us content, they just have to shape our perception of one. And there are far too many idiots eager to perceive whatever reality allows them to participate in a meme-sharing culture of superiority.
Fuck.
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Threatening us with a good time.
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In light of watching The Social Dilema(check it out on Netflix), I was thinking about how the online world has evolved since let’s say the mid 90’s.
Early on, people adopted email because of its cost and time efficiencies compared to snail mail. Then our email inboxes were inundated with spam, because why shouldn’t a virtual mailbox look like your real mailbox. At it’s core though, the virtual world was a doppelganger of the real world.
Then companies started utilizing the web for marketing, promotion, and sales. People were accepting of the way the commercial aspects of the internet functioned because they, for the most part, correlated to commercial transactions in real life. The internet was like a shopping mall. There’s a store front, you enter, you purchase, you take possession of goods or receive services, and you may or may not choose to return again. Few would argue that the commercialization of the internet was technology being used for its best and highest purpose, but it was a comprehensible facsimile of reality.
Prior to the internet, for decades the demand has been that we degrade our physical environment, and sacrifice individual autonomy and creative freedom in our work places–in the pursuit of maximizing profits for the few at the expense of the many. The age of social media ushered in privatized and monetized public spaces and interpersonal relationships–demanding our obsequiousness to private enrichment in those areas as well.
We would laugh at the idea that our grandparent’s photo albums would be improved if every other page had a McDonald’s ad. We would scoff at the idea that anyone could demand our ID in order to go to the park with our kids. We would be repulsed if we told our friends and family what our top 10 tv shows were, and they sold that information to the highest bidder. That has all been normalized online. The consequences are garish.
What is the path forward for social media or the internet in general? Is a model like we use for public utilities viable? What potential solutions should be considered?
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We are just waiting for AI to advance far enough for each of us to have our own digital personal assistant to curate our social media for us.
Also duplication is a huge part of it. There are no ponies in their world.
“I can’t think of any reason at all why they would do this” , while stuffing Adult VS bras into their bag.
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Gina trollin’ trying to get dumbass Karens to unintentionally steal VS bras from the mall.
Seems fair. 
Wired interview with Tristan Harris(he was prominently featured in the Social Dilemma) & Yuval Noah Harari(author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind)
Transcript of the interview:
Well worth the read. Some highlights include:
YNH: I think that we are now facing really, not just a technological crisis, but a philosophical crisis. Because we have built our society, certainly liberal democracy with elections and the free market and so forth, on philosophical ideas from the 18th century which are simply incompatible not just with the scientific findings of the 21st century but above all with the technology we now have at our disposal…Maybe the most important fact about living in the 21st century is that we are now hackable animals.
TH: I think a good example of this is YouTube…You wake up from a trance three hours later and you say, “What the hell just happened?” And it’s because you didn’t realize you had a supercomputer pointed at your brain. So when you open up that video you’re activating Google’s billions of dollars of computing power and they’ve looked at what has ever gotten 2 billion human animals to click on another video. And it knows way more about what’s going to be the perfect chess move to play against your mind…Everywhere you turn on the internet there’s basically a supercomputer pointing at your brain, playing chess against your mind, and it’s going to win a lot more often than not.…The problem is it doesn’t actually care about what you want, it just cares about what will keep you next on the screen. The thing that works best at keeping a teenage girl watching a dieting video on YouTube the longest is to say here’s an anorexia video. If you airdrop a person on a video about the news of 9/11, just a fact-based news video, the video that plays next is the Alex Jones InfoWars video.
TH: We’re going to be able to point AIs at human animals and figure out more and more signals from them including their micro expressions, when you smirk and all these things, we’ve got face ID cameras on all of these phones. So now if you have a tight loop where I can adjust the political messages in real time to your heart rate and to your eye dilation and to your political personality. That’s not a world that you want to live in. It’s a kind of dystopia.
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bad idea imo
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