Nah, it's more akin to just advertising, and the whole culture around that. Hence the 'negative connotations.' ;)

[...] limits political content from people you're not following

More echo-chamber sounds like a great idea to make the problem even worse.

> Can we still avoid passing 1.5C? What? You just said in the first sentence that we've already passed: "Earth had its first year-long, 1.5-degree rise in temperature."

Yep. if you'd actually read the article, you would've seen this paragraph: “Throughout this timeline, the threat actor tried to access a myriad of other systems at Cloudflare but failed because of our access controls, firewall rules, and use of hard security keys enforced using our own Zero Trust tools.”

Done: https://www.trackmenot.io/ It got blocked by Google (no surprises there), but could be resurrected.

Even though the sale to Epic sucked, I hope Bandcamp wins against Google. Because fuck them even more.

This has nothing to do with the "Fermi paradox" and even then, the Fermi paradox is stupid.

This is a better example.

Lolwat? Tiktok is just as toxic, if not moreso. The data collection and sharing is immense, and its culture is also just as shit.

Stop anthropomorphising machines. They're not and never will be alive. Next.

Precisely what happens when: 1) speech is been ceded to giant corporations to control, and 2) all such speech is commodified, because that's the sole purpose of their platforms. It wasn't a very big stretch to see the end was built into the beginning. Next!

There is no "actual good [AI] can do in the world." Technological escalation is a root cause of societal and ecological collapse. The actual good thing to do in the world, would be to not have any of it the first place.

Who in their right mind thought they were signing up for this much surveillance back when they first joined Facebook?

The people who DIDN'T sign up for Facebook ever, because back in the day, they could see how intensely invasive it was even without all the crazy tracking that has been added in the past 15 years.

... and 3 years before the Social Dilemma, the documentary Stare Into The Lights My Pretties. And 4 years before that, the book Mind Change by Susan Greenfield which had the same claims about screen culture creating dopamine addicts. But apparently she was too early for her time, cos ten years ago, when we could of done something to fix the problem, she was derided for being "alarmist."