Farrell is a brilliant technology critic. Her work on "#ProdigalTechBros" is essential:

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

So her review means a lot to me in general, but I was overwhelmed to read her describe how *Red Team Blues* taught her to "read again for joy" after #LongCovid "completely scrambled [her] brain."

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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…

The Conversationalist

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…

The Conversationalist