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  1. "[the rapes happened] because a technology platform enabled her husband to connect with other rapists - at least 72 of them - in a 50km radius of their small French provincial town.

    What do you do with that information? In the pre-internet age, would all those men be rapists? I don’t believe so. Their desires were normalised by algorithmic forces beyond their control and an opportunity was presented by a platform that offered anonymity and impunity."
    —Carol Cadwalladr

    #AlgorithmSocialMedia

  2. 1- When I was younger) I thought that the lessons of #WWII would forever inoculate us against overt fascism.

    2- When I was younger) I though that humanity, in general, had evolved past the point were SF scenarios of #DystopianTech , making existential decisions for us, could ever really happen.

    Only took ~15 yrs of #DarkTriad #AlgorithmSocialMedia , elevating all batsh!t ideas to mainstream, to trigger both.

    #DisasterCapitalist #Technofeudalism plus #Technofascism means
    #The21stCenturySucks