Remember when you used to go into an actual shop and have a look at something you might have wanted, then left it. Then the manager would follow you home and knock on your door a couple of hours later to see if you still wanted it? Those were the days

Absolutely nothing could spoil your big reveal moment!!!...

That theory would certainly explain a lot about our current situation

It's the powerlessness that's so frustrating. No regulation or moral compass for big tech as they blindly press forward to get to more stability for their business models, at the expense of this generation's school education/sanity/trust in information/opportunity for distorting reality...

To be fair, most of the human written ones were slop as well. Finding genuine authorative sources for just about anything on the internet has become more and more frustrating and time consuming, although AI is kicking that phenomenon into hyper drive.

There's his reward right there, any money would be a bonus, it was always editorial control he was after

The feed quality does seem to be sliding as predicted. Is it too late to reclaim social media, or has it been lost forever to constantly refined algorithms driven by maximising engagement = revenue? At the expense of, you know levels of concentration, genuine happiness, relationships, childhood...

Where did this episode avoid criticism of fossil fuel industry and downplay the climate crisis?

They only seem to take action when they publicly get into trouble. We need big tech to restart their moral compasses

Is that a beta version? Incredible. So users are wasting all that extra energy, for what actual benefit??