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Unsealed Court Documents Show Teen Addiction Was Big Tech's "Top Priority" (techoversight.org)
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Microsite Highlighting Evidence from the Landmark Social Media Addiction Trials.

New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the narrative with parents

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[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 121 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

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[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Did you copy it from the Internet, or did you do it yourself?

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 83 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I am nothing but a peddler of stolen ASCII art and memes I'm afraid.

[–] cravl@slrpnk.net 37 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Meme smarter, not harder. 🤌

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 11 hours ago

Preach, sibling.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

This gave me a sudden flashback to the days when I had a program on VAX VMS that would spit out ASCII art to a chat console from a collection of dozens.

This was also huge on the old WWW III and other BBS Systems over various networks like FIDO. What a time.

[–] Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

Reminded me of dialing in to BBSs to play LORD. I had a nice collection of ANSI and ASCII art. I thought I was hot shit with my i486 that had two hard drives, 100MB & 200MB. Look out world!

[–] reddfugee@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Maaan, I read The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll recently and was more than a little jealous of what y’all got to experience. Sounds like it was a blast : )

[–] timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro 1 points 10 minutes ago

Ah damn, I loved that book when I was a kid. I can probably blame it, at least in part, for my career...

(I was a massive nerd and a FidoNet sysop back in the 80s & 90s, and got my first VMS and Unix experience hopping onto academic networks over dialup and X.25 gateways using, err, "unconventially obtained" credentials... This experience helped me convince my interviewer at Imperial College to overlook my less than stellar academic record to admit me to their Computing peogramme.

That book - and the movie WarGames - were definitely inspiring, if not life-changing.)

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world -3 points 6 hours ago

What is this crap supposed to be?