Go Team Indifference! As a non-sports enthusiast I enjoyed the oxytocin release caused by the confirmation of my priors.

via YT @PsychologyIsSimplified

https://youtu.be/O2Fb-SJ9v0M

#ConfirmationBias #Psychology #oxytocin #SocialMedia #Enshittification #SurveillanceCapitalism #SocialMediaSucks #HalfHeartedFanatic

I'm still on Xitter — automated reposts from Mastodon. [Insert flimsy rationale here.]

#ElonMusk #HerrPlugs #SocialMedia #Enshittification #SurveillanceCapitalism #Xitter #SocialMediaSucks #HalfHeartedFanatic

A guide to the many twitters in 2025 by Tommy Siegel
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I post on all but Threads.

I would post on Threads as a mirror but I've had difficulty with some setup stuff.

Anyway, this is pretty accurate.

I mean if you step outside of the tiny Creek bubble that a lot of us use Twitter for it is a horrible horrible horrible horrible place.

#socialmediasucks

The YouTube algorithm really has me nailed as an anti-algorithm kind of person. Thanks algorithm!

https://youtu.be/Omc37TvHN74

#SocialMedia #Enshittification #SurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteFacebook #DeleteMeta #Fecesbook #Xitter #SocialMediaSucks #HalfHeartedFanatic

Who most likely said “I don’t do math 👎"? Take a guess. MAGA or not? NEW BLOG POST

A harmless social post about math turned out to be a litmus test. Participate in my social experiment.

attn xitter @hawntedIG @AlbertBarclay69
https://tinyurl.com/2xzfzr6j

#Trump #Math #AntiTrump #AntiGOP #AntiMAGA #SocialMedia #Enshittification #Xitter #SocialMediaSucks #HateSpeech #HalfHeartedFanatic

I knew a decade ago that social media was a lost cause. Now I have an actual study to back up my assessment.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/study-social-media-probably-cant-be-fixed/

#FuckSocialMedia #SocialMediaIsAToxicCesspool #SocialMediaIsEvil #SocialMediaIsTrash #SocialMediaSucks

Shocker: Meta collected data from a period-tracker app without user consent.

Via mstdn @arstechnica

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/jury-finds-meta-broke-wiretap-law-by-collecting-data-from-period-tracker-app/

#SocialMedia #Enshittification #SurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteFacebook #DeleteMeta #Fecesbook #SocialMediaSucks #HalfHeartedFanatic

Enabling the surveillance state can be fun!

HT mstdn @Mumonkan

#Authoritarian #SocialMedia #Enshittification #SurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteFacebook #DeleteMeta #Fecesbook #Xitter #SocialMediaSucks #HalfHeartedFanatic

Stop, Meta! My EU-envy is already a problem.

It must be nice to live somewhere with disinformation rules. Europe does the bare-minimum decent thing, and American tech bros cry like it’s oppression.

HT mstdn @jpaskaruk

https://www.ft.com/content/c05bcb1d-f032-46cc-8f6c-c1f29ee0e465

#SocialMedia #Enshittification #DeleteFacebook #DeleteMeta #Fecesbook #Xitter #SocialMediaSucks #HalfHeartedFanatic

A little Q&A with Grok

#Mastodon #ElonMusk #DOGE #DOGEBags #HerrPlugs #SocialMedia #Enshittification #Xitter #Grok #SocialMediaSucks #HateSpeech #HalfHeartedFanatic