I'd like to add after looking over his profile that I think @mitsuhiko.at is either gullible, a grifter, or both.

I have less respect for the Atlantic than I did before. And I didn't have a lot before.

Good book on exactly that and how these same companies are being exploited to build 'AI': uk.bookshop.org/p/books/feed...

Yes, it is depressing and distressing.

I've spent years talking about how letting a handful of corporations/wealthy people control the entire internet is a bad thing for over a decade, and now watching people panic and say, 'we didn't know' is exhausting to me because I (and others) HAVE BEEN TELLING PEOPLE FOR YEARS.

Oh yeah, that's why I won't take them seriously...

Accountability demands self-awareness. Fascists kill one to nullify the other.

Money, power, and bigotry do insane things to people's minds

Agreed. This is why feminism is also liberatory for men. Also, don't hug me. Not a big fan of being touched by strangers.

The internet always finding new ways to make each subsequent generation hornier than the last

Because 'the left' has always been scarier to the capitalist class than the right.