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Why did 77 million people vote for a man most of them called extreme and why did 2 million wallets buy a memecoin issued by a sitting president? Why do we gamble, over and over again, with every tap and swipe?

There’s a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products, and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable, and if you “lose” one, you can manufacture a replacement; that the value of a group of people who share space and history can be captured in a metric and deployed at scale.

A well-written post. Some highlights focused on the network angle of things:

We are living with a near-universal thin desire: wanting something that cannot actually be gotten, that we can’t define, from a source that has no interest in providing it.

Cross-posted from "I’m Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better" by @juergen@feddit.org in !technology@lemmy.world

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Joan Westenberg skriver om de förändringar som behöver göras i samhället, kulturen, individuellt och digitalt för att lämna kapitalismen.

Joan Westenberg skriver mycket om AI. Hon är i min mening varken överdrivet positiv eller negativ utan har ett kritiskt förhållningssätt.