By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Eternal Sloptember; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/08/06/s... #Pluralistic 1/ 2318
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026Eternal Sloptember: Mark Zuckerberg and the fantasy of social media without socializing. bsky.app/profile/did:... 2/By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.netI'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/ 121
Andrea F @drefro.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I agree with almost all of this except I doubt that most people on Facebook who don't pay attention to tech culture think about Zuck much if at all. Their calculation is probably more that they're resigned to the crap on Facebook and don't see a good alternative to it. 000
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