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7. Well I haven't read the book
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 11:24 AM
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But I definitely increasingly see a lot of the net/social media as a cynical tool of the amoral, mercenary, global military industrial complex.

Nothing original there..but if it’s not precisely an insider’s take, I still have some experience with how social engineering and emotion manipulation are built into these technologies. Probably a little more than the average person.

But it’s not specific to Facebook so much as our overall technology landscape.

It’s frustratingly hard to pinpoint beyond the rather vague outline I just gave you.

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