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The Metaverse Is the Ultimate Surveillance Tool

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Social Media Is Bad for Your Brain and Technologyis Bad

i'm not one of those people who says social media is inherently bad, and it's bad for your brain. But i think that there is an objective pect to social media which is designed in a certain way. It enables this sort of mass psychosis where people can just kind of indulge into this virtual world. A lot of powerful people really are rooting for mark sackeberg and for meta because they recognize that this is like a way to get people disengaged from political processes. The Metaverse could be another overblown idea. It could be another silican vally pipe dream. We tend to believe technology is always inevitable - but it's never inevitable. And the whole idea of privacy

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