"It's not that #Facebook trapped us by hacking our #dopamineloops, they trapped us by making sure that once our #friends were there they could not leave." @pluralistic

Take a moment to watch this interview of #CoryDoctorow with #BriahnaJoyGray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlrKlp_Iiko

Science Fiction is EXPOSING Scams and AI Dystopia (w/ Cory Doctorow)

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The Twiddler thesis, in other words, is a counter to the narrative of @mariafarrell's #ProdigalTechBros, who claim that they were once evil sorcerers, but, having seen the error of their ways, vow to be *good* sorcerers from now on, forswearing "hacking our #DopamineLoops" like vampires swearing off blood:

https://conversationalist.org/2020/03/05/the-prodigal-techbro/

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The Prodigal Techbro

Prodigal tech bro stories skip straight from the past, when they were part of something that—surprise!—turned out to be bad, to the present, where they are now a moral authority on how to do good…

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