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Monday
September 30,
2024
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this is the future big tech desires: atomized consumers constrained to virtual bubbles perfected to exert social control and extract maximum profit. you can work, shop, and recreate (but mostly work) in a wholly immersive environment, a purely commercial construct where all activities are glazed with ads and your every swipe, tap, and linger is itself a commodity for data managers. you think you're playing the game but it plays you, not so much predicting as programming your next move. that's fine by me, to each their own, but i think it's wild that people pay for the privilege of strapping skinner boxes to their faces. and i really wouldn't care except this hero from the future made himself a nuisance with the rat-a-tat-tat of his toy guns (why no headphones, my dude?) and by thrusting his arms randomly into the aisle, oblivious as a drooling toddler tugging on the drapes, forcing fellow passengers to squinch by. one shook her head, proffered an unseen smile. |