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Which brings us to the concept of enclosure. Think about your own digital life right now. If the state uses public funds to subsidize the infrastructure, but the private corporation owns the proprietary keys to the satellites, the charging networks, and the digital public square, aren’t we just paying to build the walls of our own prison?
An Interesting Experiment With LLMs
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And that leads to Facebook, the singularly worst company in the tech sector ever. Its business model is to strip mine data from your relationships to your friends and family. It does this by showing you addictive, misleading and divisive content to optimise your screen time. (7/)
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There are three traditional methods for relating directly with difficult circumstances as a path of awakening and joy. The first method we’ll call no more struggle; the second, using poison as medicine; and the third, seeing whatever arises as enlightened wisdom. These are three techniques for working with chaos, difficulties, and unwanted events in our daily lives.
Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
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