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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026

I'm sure that working in social media - dealing with people as mass statistical abstractions - is a cognitohazard, the sort of thing that could make anyone a little solipsistic, convinced that everyone else is a kind of stimulus-responding automaton lacking the interiority that you experience. 1/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A Lot of Questions Already Answered by the Shirt bsky.app/profile/doct...

"all Zuck or all nothing"
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

I think the causal arrow points in the other direction: I think that Zuck founded Facebook *because* he doesn't really believe that other people are truly *real*, at least not as real as he is. 4/

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Professor R.R. Snakehead @snakehead.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

To be fair, i think that too,but you don't see me going around making it everyone else's problem.

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Heidi Siegmund Cuda — Bette Dangerous @heidicuda.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

An acquaintance who works for a "Death Star" platform is so focused on his material possessions, I think he's suffering from a dissociative disorder - complete denial his products cause harms/mass radicalization; refuses to discuss the news; has a "not my department, said Wernher von Braun" attitude

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OrangeDave @ursus262.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

So what you are saying is something I've understood all along. He's a sociopath.

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Dr. Omed @tinydoctor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm not sure people like Zuck experience "interiority" themselves.

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