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Big Tech: Convenience is a Trap (youtu.be)
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A video essay on what we give up in exchange for the convenience that social media and algorithms provide.

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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago

I mean, he worked (before going feral) in the place where much of what made our world different from the 80s was pioneered. Even if we hear about Berkeley or Stanford more.

It's a situation where you want to follow those having potentially the best inside information. About the culture of the people involved, about their ideas.

It's still unsettling how in Tolkien's world Melkor is the weird one out, while the rest of Valar are good. Really seems to be inverted in tech.

And also delay-tolerant not perpetually directly networked systems don't have to be inconvenient. They are made that by directed effort.