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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/04/2026

The royalty-free slop tracks that Spotify generates with AI or commissions from no-name artists will be even more insipidly unsurprising: pluralistic.net/2022/09/12/s... 34/

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Pluralistic: 12 Sep 2022 Spotify is a ripoff, a Spotify exclusive – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/04/2026

Thompson cites Shishi Wu's dissertation on "Passive Flow," a term she coined to describe how teens fall into social media scroll-trances: scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcont... 35/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/04/2026

Wu says it's a mistake to attribute the regretted hours of scrolling to addiction or a failure of self-control. Rather, the user is falling into "passive flow," a condition arising from three factors: 36/

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John Jencks @sanecinema.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

That’s an interesting description, I’ve recently started to feel like scrolling through social media is daydreaming to someone else’s tune. (I say this as someone for whom daydreaming is an important part of their creative process and was therefore horrified)

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