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On Facebook, our basic humanity is reframed as an exploitable viral asset. Our social potential is compressed to our ability to command public attention, which is then made inextricable from economic survival. Instead of fair wages and benefits, we have our personalities and stories and relationships, and we’d better learn to package them well for
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Life on TikTok Gave Him the Illusion of Love and a Sad, Brutal End
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Ava Kofman • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
Descriptions like Nuland’s convinced me that such things could be known only face-to-face.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
If we don’t change course, he fears we are headed toward a world where “there’s going to be an upper class of people that are very aware” of the risks to their attention and find ways to live within their limits, and then there will be the rest of the society with “fewer resources to resist the manipulation, and they’re going to be living more and
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