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Hamilbug

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UK tech editor @ Politico | board game obsessive

Hamilbug @hamilbug.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

From an interview I did with @shuhbillskee.bsky.social 3ish years ago... boy did he call it. The language of social media 'addiction' didn't start with campaigners, it started in Silicon Valley with techies trying to upsell their products.

A snippet of text in which Oxford professor Andrew Przybylski says tech companies saying their products are 'addictive' will come back to bite them.

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Hamilbug @hamilbug.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Fun to see Meta pursuing the Ursula-the-sea-witch style of AI data mining (www.theverge.com/news/658602/...)

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