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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026Hey look at this * Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies cruxevals.com/crux/can-ai-... * Meta Adding Millions Of AI-Generated 'Users' To IG, Facebook www.mediapost.com/publications... 3/ 120
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