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Happy Utopian-dystopian Christmas Everybody

Published by Olly Blackburn

And let’s celebrate with a strong analysis of how social media was inspired by lefty utopians only to become the best friend of authoritarians. Check Tim Wu, he saw this coming ages ago.   https://harpers.org/archive/2019/01/machine-politics-facebook-political-polarization/   “ Social-media technologies have spawned enormous corporations that make money by mapping and mining the social world. Like the extraction […]