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Twitter was originally good. It was and is a technology for following people you are interested in. The corruption started because of the need to make money an

by babesh 5y ago

Twitter was originally good. It was and is a technology for following people you are interested in. The corruption started because of the need to make money and how they chose to do it, namely advertising. Advertising is brainwashing based on limbic hacking. The best limbic hacking is outrage. Everything that you didn’t consciously choose to be in your feed is brainwashing. This includes promoted ads and trending. These approaches have gone through many optimization cycles and are much optimized. Control over this brainwashing power is corrupting and @jack now wields it for his politics as well. Perhaps he couldn’t help himself. The same techniques used in advertising are now used to inject political stances into your mind and heart. Also, @jack has used the power to not only to amplify opinions he favors but to silence those that he disfavors.

metalliqaz 5y ago
Same with Facebook. Same with crap journalism. Junk food for the brain gets clicks. Just like sexy women got eyeballs on magazines, rage-bait gets clicks on links. The big question is... how are we going to pay for the web without advertising? Nobody has been able to answer that question. The closest we seem to have is things like Patreon, and that doesn't cut it for big services.
- babesh 5y ago
  Massive benefactors just like in the old days. Possibly crowdfunding. Would be interesting to see how far that can go.
babesh 5y ago
The USA isn’t a utopian democracy. Never has been. It’s an oligarchy of power interests. The Biden election represents tech’s full entry into the oligarchy. It did this by explicitly weighing in on the political battle. Now that it’s hand is on the tiller, it can’t help itself and will keep its hand on the tiller. Expect tech to weigh in on more and more issues of the country. Initially it was label itself as an erstwhile benign force, then beneficent, and then finally its mask will be unveiled. Remember when big oil had so much power and wielded if? Now it’s big tech with so much power and it’s wielding it.

by babesh 5y ago

metalliqaz 5y ago

Same with Facebook. Same with crap journalism. Junk food for the brain gets clicks. Just like sexy women got eyeballs on magazines, rage-bait gets clicks on links. The big question is... how are we going to pay for the web without advertising? Nobody has been able to answer that question. The closest we seem to have is things like Patreon, and that doesn't cut it for big services.

babesh 5y ago
Massive benefactors just like in the old days. Possibly crowdfunding. Would be interesting to see how far that can go.

babesh 5y ago

The USA isn’t a utopian democracy. Never has been. It’s an oligarchy of power interests. The Biden election represents tech’s full entry into the oligarchy. It did this by explicitly weighing in on the political battle. Now that it’s hand is on the tiller, it can’t help itself and will keep its hand on the tiller. Expect tech to weigh in on more and more issues of the country. Initially it was label itself as an erstwhile benign force, then beneficent, and then finally its mask will be unveiled. Remember when big oil had so much power and wielded if? Now it’s big tech with so much power and it’s wielding it.