Mastodawn

Social media tricks your brain. It makes you feel like you're doing something important when you're really not.

When you post, comment, or argue online, your brain thinks you accomplished something. It doesn't matter if people agree with you or fight with you. Either way, you feel tired afterward, like you worked hard.

But nothing actually changed. The problems are still there.

This is exactly what powerful people want. If you're busy on your phone, you're not busy fixing real problems.

#goodnight #5thgradereadinglevel

err.yes Aug 5, 2024

Electronic Frontier Foundation Aug 4, 2024

CrowdStrike’s billion-dollar outage is a wake-up call. We need antitrust action now to prevent future tech collapses. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/crowdstrike-antitrust-and-digital-monoculture

CrowdStrike, Antitrust, and the Digital Monoculture

Last month’s unprecedented global IT failure should be a wakeup call. Decades of antitrust inaction have made many industries dangerously reliant on the same tools, making such crises inevitable. We must demand regulators break up the digital monocultures that are creating a less competitive, less...

Electronic Frontier Foundation