Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are objectively evil. "Better offline" and "behind the bastards" do some great podcast eps to explain this. That said, almost everything we do helps an evil company in some way and we don't always have a choice not to engage. If using it is bringing you joy then use it. But if it isn't, wean yourself off.
Feb 9, 2025
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as a good friend who goes by gilles deleuze said, there are often not bad answers but bad questions- being 'online' must be thought in its context and examined from a personal lense. its not secret tech companies are developing drugs in chocolate and fizzy drink like techniques that are: making people paranoid(conspiracy theories, scared of each other) over stimulated; regurgitaters; fascist; thinking thir opinion matters and should be shared;short attention span havers and losers to the trees outside. personally, i like the net and try to be online in not an 'ethical' or 'morally right' way, but a way that lets be in nature knowing i am in nature- meaning one should opt less for a phone in their hand that puts the whole world comfortably in the pocket but a cloggy loud computer that remidns them of the infinite nature of life and how a beautiful pc puts them online.the internet is mostly demonic and ig jesus didnt go online or anything but perhaps omnipotence is like the world web. idk.
Apr 13, 2024
In case you needed a more defined line between the narcissist doomscroll app and Silicon Valley backed weapons systems, M3ta is now a defense contractor under a rogue dictatorship, and your data gets monetized to support it.
May 30, 2025
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+1 taterhole
meta’s charter is to be the “world’s town square”, google / youtube routinely dodges monopoly cases by asserting they're an ads company instead of a search or video company, beyond just collecting a lot of data about users these platforms are designed to captivate a large number of users to farm a large amount of data about
beyond the effect that has on their recommendation algorithms that makes them so much more potent than print or word-of-mouth in terms of “conversions”; it makes them *where* you go to look at / for your interests. the mass of these platforms pulls every single one of us to them, and has so severely neutralized alternatives that every single person active on the social internet is either entirely or primarily “influenced” by the social internet. only *then* are the hypereffective recommendations pointed at us show us stuff that would be a safe bet we’d be inclined towards so (maybe) we buy it
and maybe we do bc what’s the alternative, magazines?
Jan 17, 2025
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When it's finally warm enough to open those windows and let the spring air in, allergies be damned
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If the voice in your head is being too mean ask it if it would talk to someone you love this way. My internal monologue can be a 💩 and this sometimes can help it be more constructive
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Something about getting into those fresh sheets that smell like laundry detergent just feels better
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