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   Joan Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 18:16:47 JST Joan Westenberg

   2/15 They’re precision weapons, engineered to hijack your focus and dismantle your autonomy.
   Think of your attention as a finite currency—except you didn’t sign up for the bank account, and every time you try to withdraw, someone else has already spent it.

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     4/15 It’s not an accident. Every infinite scroll, every notification badge, every “you might also like” suggestion is a calculated move in a larger game of psychological chess. These systems want your patterns, your desires, your unconscious impulses.

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     3/15 What’s left behind is a hollowed-out version of you: overwhelmed, distracted, and unknowingly complicit in your own exploitation. This is the obsession economy, and you’re its most profitable product.

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     Joan Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 23:13:58 JST Joan Westenberg

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     10/15 They’ve wired us to fear boredom, to avoid stillness at all costs, because those are the cracks where self-awareness might slip through. And self-awareness? That’s bad for business.

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     Joan Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 23:13:59 JST Joan Westenberg

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     6/15 They know how to weaponize your dopamine and hold it hostage. The more you give in, the more they refine their techniques, locking you into a feedback loop where every swipe feels necessary but leaves you emptier than before.

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     7/15 The more distracted you are, the less likely you are to notice who’s actually profiting from your fractured attention.

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     8/15 We like to pretend that we’re in control, that we’re the savvy operators of our own lives. But try putting your phone down for a day, and you’ll feel the phantom itch of those notifications you’re not getting.

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     9/15 Try watching TV without simultaneously scrolling through Twitter or Instagram, and you’ll feel the unbearable weight of being alone with a single thought.

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     Joan Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 23:14:00 JST Joan Westenberg

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     5/15 They want to turn you into a predictable machine that clicks, buys, and reacts on cue. And they’re good at it. Very fucking good.