As usual, a remarkable thread (or essay) here from Cory -- on Zuck.
Surely this will self-destruct. The question is, will it do it before it takes our civilisation with it...
I'm sure that working in social media - dealing with people as mass statistical abstractions - is a cognitohazard, the sort of thing that could make anyone a little solipsistic, convinced that everyone else is a kind of stimulus-responding automaton lacking the interiority that you yourself experience.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/06/sin-is-when/#you-treat-people-as-things
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