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The something “more intimate than just a feed of all your friends” that Zuckerberg yearns for would presumably be some sort of AI agent that knows all your secrets, is willing to talk to you about nothing but you and your needs, and will act on your behalf when it has calculated what is in your interests (or whatever interests the machine serves),
Two Riders Were Approaching
Rob Horning
If, to quote Jennings, the “internet now feels like a place whose sole purpose is selling you something,” that’s because the entire world feels that way. This was social media’s mission: to drive capitalist value seeking into areas heretofore resistant or oppositional to it, the “havens in a heartless world,” if not the inner reaches of subjectivity itself.
Two Riders Were Approaching
Rob Horning
There are no words to describe the opposite sensations of being at-our-job and being not-at-our-job even if we know the feeling of crossing that threshold by heart.
The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age
Thea Lim
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