By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026It won't end well. Zuck and people like him call themselves "high agency," a disgusting bit of jargon meant to denote someone who has real interiority, wishes and desires (as opposed to the rest of us, who do as we're told and stay where we're put). 44/ 526036
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026Zuck's "agency" isn't higher than yours or mine. The difference between him and us is that he doesn't think we're really real, and we know that he's really a monster. eof/ 1446361
RadiantHostility (he/him) @radianthostility.bsky.social · 06/08/2026At this point I don't think rich people have interiority. Like spending extended amounts of time in an environment where everything and everyone around you mirrors your own peevish libidinal vibes back at you, you gradually lose the ability to imagine others as authentically independent beings. 1152
Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Excellent thread. One missing point though IMO: the bots aren't only about trapping users on FB where they can be monetized - 👉the bots are the monetization plan👈. A synthetic crowd, leveraging human vulnerability to peer pressure in order to grab control over your agency (purchasing, voting, etc).Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social🧵 Human actions and beliefs are hugely influenced by peer pressure, and not standing out from the crowd. C.f. everything from teen drug/alcohol use through cults and diffusion of responsibility for war crimes. This will allow Meta (like X) to surround each user with a targeted, synthetic "crowd"… 0100
petitpoulet.bsky.social @petitpoulet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026People like him can exist in a realm where they don’t really have to live with the rest of us, but they are also trapped there in an illusion of choice 000
BazBro @bazbro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Such a great read. I dragged myself away from FB and many, many old friends in Jan 25, when the sights and sounds of Zuck gurgling the bloated orange goblin's nutsack generated rage much stronger than any love for friends I could conjure up. So yeah I hate Zuck for that too. A truly awful "person" 1321
Thank You For Your Extension To This Antimatter @doczmail.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.socialBREAKING: Meta, $META, must pay $567 million into a fund to remedy its role in a youth mental health crisis, on top of a previously decided $375 million in penalties, a New Mexico judge ruled, per CNN. 000
stillfischer.bsky.social @stillfischer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Meta, in a tin whistle drone, "See, our AI is DANGEROUS, too!" 020
Slow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 07/08/2026bsky.app/profile/elkm...Michael Love@elkmovie.bsky.socialI’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this) 000
dfohio @dfohio.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I can't get my wife off Facebook (I never joined it or any other Meta product). "I only use it to keep in touch with my friends!" Yeah, but you're lining Zuck's pockets and tacitly endorsing his promotion of right-wing ideas. 010
Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Seems like Zuck invites the use of pitchforks to explore whether this claimed superior “interiority” exists. 090
Black Myron @blackmyron.bsky.social · 06/08/2026William Gibson's quote never misses: “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” 524158
Murmuring towards Kalamazoo @themurmuring.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Zuck exploited women by scraping college databases to create a "hot or not" voting site, and rode that misogyny to massive wealth. Equating massive luck with "agency" is a hell of a mental bias. Pick one or all: skill-luck conflation/outcome bias/false authority. 191
Havelock Vetinari @havelockvetinari.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Mostly correct, but is this really a death spiral? 010
Allison F @ablington.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I am a Meta user because of marketplace, otherwise I would not use it. marketplace has been neglected even though it is a steady source of income for Meta. The terrible user experience of it reflects the idea that Zuckerberg hates people. you can tell that Meta is deeply uninterested in it… 1131
Ukemike @ukemike.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I don't think he's real either. He's a feakin animated wax figure. 000