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The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How #SocialMedia Rewired Our Minds and Our World by #MaxFisher

These excerpts pretty much summarizes all that is wrong with #techbro #siliconvalley #neoliberal #technososolutionism. And their #zerotoone #economicmodel has been oozing through our societies like toxic water, reinforcing the worse of #capitalism and potentially sending us back several decades in term of #democracy and #humanism.

From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitz…

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Reading #TheChaosMachine by #MaxFisher. Eye-opening for a non-techie, makes move to #Mastodon even more interesting!

@shengokai The thing is, social media IS acting independently in a way. The algorithm is running itself. The outcome of "more engagement more screentime" is programmed but the means to get there is up to the quants. #maxfisher warns about this in "The Chaos Machine" . Here is an excerpt https://adreanainlb.blogspot.com/2022/11/is-civil-war-2-coming.html#deep_learning