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sanity_is_maddening@lemm.ee 1 day agoThe Cambridge Analytica debacle!!! That was such a low point. I don’t know how facebook was allowed to exist after that shitstorm, let alone grow. I mean, I do, the system rewards its consolidating power. But the people?? No class lawsuits? No boycotts?? I never used facebook. But I used to have an instagram account. They bought it and ruined it as expected and I had to leave. The same with whatsapp. I’m anti-social enough for it to be easy for me to quit these things, I suppose… Still, I’m so tired of the techno conglomerates destroying everything like slow moving lava consuming everything as it spreads. As I write this, I have to think of Pompeii. Surely, there must’ve been people warning them to get out of there for years and years. But some probably used magical thinking and said that the gods would spare them as long as they behaved or something in that line. As others probably in apathy masked as wise skeptcism said that people warned their great grandparents of the same and how they were still there. And then… well… Volcano did what volcanos do.
But yeah, I also have been witnessing the slow fulfillment of our fictional dark dystopias. All being neatly adapted into our daily lifes. While most people just seem to think that shit is normal as usual.
And soon enough… it is… Wielded into existence by a few through the apathy of the many.