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   Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 08:50:35 JST Jonathan Schofield

   So many people are really algorithmically addled

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     Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 08:50:34 JST Jonathan Schofield

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     …The general vibe of capitalism is increasingly the expectation that one can get substantially something for relatively nothing

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     Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 08:50:34 JST Jonathan Schofield

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     …With hindsight I realise that I was algorithmically addled until about 15 months ago when I started investing in properly being here.

     Mastodon’s greatest gift to digital culture is as a window for people to deprogramme themselves from being constantly manipulated. But it seems a conundrum that those with the greatest need of that are not here

     Bill repeated this.
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     Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 08:50:34 JST Jonathan Schofield

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     …Convenience:

     Us humans under capitalism are really astonishingly bad at considering and weighing downstream effects.

     If something is convenient – ie it brings us something easily – we’re all in, even if it brings us a world of pain later.

     Which is a round about way of me acknowledging a new appreciation for the semantics within the film title

     “An Inconvenient Truth”