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   Ben Werdmuller (ben@werd.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 23:37:46 JST Ben Werdmuller

   Careless People is a complicated book: the author is complicit in the activities she describes, which no amount of ironic detachment or claims of trying to change the system from the inside can hide. #bookstodon
   https://bookshop.org/a/7949/9781250391230

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     Ben Werdmuller (ben@werd.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 23:37:47 JST Ben Werdmuller

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     But it’s engagingly-written, frequently hilarious, and jaw-dropping on almost every page. She’s done us a service by painting this insider’s picture of Facebook / Meta. It’s one that I hope every politician who hopes to touch tech policy will read.

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     Ben Werdmuller (ben@werd.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 23:38:02 JST Ben Werdmuller

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     These are the people to avoid. These are the people who will lead us into hell. These are the people who, in very real ways, through genocides, swung elections, and the violence of indifference to real human suffering, already are.

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     Ben Werdmuller (ben@werd.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 23:38:10 JST Ben Werdmuller

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     I also hope everyone in the tech industry reads it. Not only because it’s a cautionary tale in itself, but because the personalities described here are rife in the industry. I’ve never spoken to Mark or Sheryl or Joel or most of the rest of them, but I’ve met people like them, with those same sensibilities, and they are every bit as shallow and driven by power as is laid out here.

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