newenglandpatriots (@newenglandpatriots@channels.im)
Are the New England Patriots playing today?
The New England Patriots are on t…
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curtismchale (@curtismchale@mastodon.social)
A Reading Year That Left Me Worried
As I've started to dig into a year of reading I see a few big themes emerging.
First, we've lost access to truth. From politicians lying then not paying any consequences for their falsehoods, to AI telling us to eat rocks for digestion, we have lost truth. Probably worse though, is that many people aren't even looking for
https://curtismchale.ca/2025/12/07/a-reading-year-that-left-me-worried/
#BookClub #DMCA #enshittification #facebook #meta #truth
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2025 (@2025@curtismchale.ca)
A Reading Year That Left Me Worried
As I’ve started to dig into a year of reading I see a few big themes emerging.
First, we’ve lost access to truth. From politicians lying then not paying any consequences for their falsehoods, to AI telling us to eat rocks for digestion, we have lost truth. Probably worse though, is that many people aren’t even looking for truth. This falls directly into the hands of the elite class that want us to delegate our thinking to central authorities because when something is concentrated to a few big players it’s easier to control. Just corrupt those few big players and you’ve corrupted everything.
Tying closely to this is the lack of competition in a supposed free market economy. We truly only have a few big companies that control vast swaths of our lives. Many of us interact with family almost exclusively through Facebook, which gives it leverage over our lives. In Canada, Meta used that leverage to remove news from feeds instead of sharing some revenue with Canadian news sites. The end result of that is I had to spend a bunch of time scrounging around to share a public meeting about active transport with the local cycling club, which only has a presence as a Facebook group. Meta doesn’t provide the service people signed up for, and in fact costs them personally as they lose time navigating its interface which isn’t primed for user interaction but keeping you on the page as long as possible.
The third big issue, which is a result of many of the actions of those big tech companies just mentioned, is that we don’t have control over our attention. We’re permanently Odysseus, hearing the call of distraction and having to fight1 it so that we can direct our attention to the places it’s most valuable. Because we have a lack of competition, and adversarial interoperability2, has been outlawed via the DMCA, tech companies like Meta and Apple can steal our attention from us and we end up paying for the privilege with no workaround possible under the law.
Finally, Western society has infected much of the world in the myth of the self-made man which is an extension of Social Darwinism a long ago debunked economic theory. Social Darwinism would have us believe that those who are successful got there because of their genetic makeup and those genetics should get to continue while people that are living in scarcity deserve it due to the lack of ambition in their genes. We see former democratic leaders use the same tactics as autocrats3, flooding the market with lies so that regular people give up and go with the flow as their rights are eroded.
Looking back at my non-fiction reading I feel a bit depressed at the state of the world around us. For many it’s all going to hell in a handbasket. Democratic nations are walking hand in hand with autocrats. Kleptocracy is running rampant. Big Tech companies looked at the vision of the future in books like Ready Player One and don’t cringe at the idea of finding the maximal number of ads before a user has a seizure, they are embracing the techno-dystopian future and fighting to be there first.
That doesn’t mean I think we’re helpless though. Next week I’ll talk a bit about what we can do to move the world towards a place that will be worth living in.
- The Sirens’ Call Pg 4 ↩︎
- Enshittification Pg 62 ↩︎
- See Autocracy Inc for a long look at this phenomenon ↩︎
#DMCA #enshittification #facebook #meta #truth
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DolphinSeeker (@DolphinSeeker@mstdn.social)
The enshitification of Facebook, summed up in one image. I only open it on a PC so I can use extensions to block unwanted content. Opening the news feed, Social Fixer had to hide 26! suggested posts from pages I don't follow before the first post of a page (not even a friend's post) I do follow appeared. Moreover, that's not showing all the ads that'll have been auto-blocked via uBlock Origin! It's just a constant slurry of unsolicited crap! 
#enshitification #Facebook #Meta
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Bonobo (@Bonobo@digitalcourage.social)
#SAMMELKLAGE gegen #Meta, #Facebook und #Instagram
»Gegenstand der Klage ist die Erfassung, Weiterleitung und Verarbeitung von personenbezogenen Daten von Nutzerinnen und Nutzern von Facebook und Instagram an Meta Platforms Ireland Limited mit Hilfe der Meta-Business-Tools auf Webseiten und Apps.«
»Anmeldung von Ansprüchen oder Rechtsverhältnissen eines Verbrauchers, einer Vebraucherin oder eines kleinen Unternehmens zu einer im Verbandsklageregister des Bundesamts für Justiz öffentlich bekannt gemachten Verbandsklage gemäß § 46 Absatz 1 des Verbraucherrechtedurchsetzungsgesetzes (VDuG)«
Info: https://www.test.de/Datenschutzverstoss-Meta-sieht-fast-jeden-Klick-6234106-0/
Das angehängte Bild zeigt das Schreiben des BaJ
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smirne76 (@smirne76@mastodon.bayern)
Das Fratzenbuch zeigt mir Werbung für den Schnitzel-Kalender, den Leberkas-Kalender und den Wurstsalat-Kalender. Dabei sollte Meta doch aus meinen Posts wissen, dass ich mit Söder nicht kann.
#wurstsalat #schnitzel #leberkas #kalender #facebook #meta #söder #söderfrisst #csu
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elettrona (@elettrona@mastodon.uno)
Scrivendo "minus habentes" nel profilo serio, mi si è sbloccato un ricordo: tizio che ai tempi di Facebook mi corresse un errore inesistente: "minus habentes? Ma si dice minus habens!"
Io: "habentes è plurale!" Lui: "allora non sai l'inglese perché è già plurale minus habens ha già due s."
Io: "non è inglese, è latino. Ma almeno ho capito che sei uno di loro" #ricordi #facebook
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nicosomb (@nicosomb@piaille.fr)
Haha le reportage sur France 2 à propos des maires qui surjouent sur les réseaux sociaux …
J’ai juste envie de vomir quand je vous vois vous mettre en scène comme ça, sérieux.
« Le but c’est de casser les codes ». Ouais bah t’es pas obligé d’être ridicule et d’en faire trop pour « s’adapter aux jeunes ».
En fait, je comprends pourquoi ça intéresse les médias, les élu-es qui quittent les RS.
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miller (@miller@ruhr.social)
Wir boykottieren jetzt diese widerwärtigen Netzwerke wie #Twitter|X, #TikTok, #Instagram, #Facebook und all die anderen, indem wir hier im #Fediverse immer und immer wieder darüber schreiben, wie scheisse die doch sind!
Es reicht nicht, sich dort einfach nicht zu beteiligen. Man muss bei jeder Gelegenheit darauf hinweisen, daß man das eben nicht tut!
Diese Netzwerke erhalten nämlich viel zu viel Aufmerksamkeit, das kann man gar nicht oft genug betonen!
Merkt ihr selber, ne?
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fast_junkie (@fast_junkie@mas.to)
I signed up for #facebook, did it mostly for the #band scene, as I am in an #active #performing band. I #meet so many #people and the first words are always... "hey... you on facebook".
I have forever said no.
What a #nightmare... but this last hurdle...? ugh
https://publish.obsidian.md/fast-junkie/v1/the+book+of+faces
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izoateofficial (@izoateofficial@mastodon.social)
How to Unfriend a Deactivated Facebook Account
Struggling with greyed-out profiles or “Facebook User” in your list? Here’s how to remove deactivated friends in seconds and keep your friend list clean.
#Facebook #SocialMedia #PrivacyGuide #Izoate #FB
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pixelmanproject (@pixelmanproject@mastodon.social)
#gayart #hairymen #lgbtart #gayartists #gayillustration #gayartai #aiartgay #aigayart #gayartcollection #gaycollector #homoartist #gayai #gaycreatives #gayinspiration #gayartwork #artbyai #gayboy #gayman #Patreon #Devianart #fanvue #facebook
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