Gerry McGovern @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green
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"Technology ships the culture of its makers. When rejection calcifies into control and desire into domination, we get systems that watch instead of connect and score instead of care. That adolescent gaze becomes a design default. The same gaze runs through today’s product design."

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From Dorm Room to Default - How Voyeurism Became a Business Model

By Christine HaskellOrigins in RejectionOver twenty years ago, a college sophomore sat in a dorm room, stewing after rejection, and built a crude website called FaceMash, where students could rate women like trading cards. Prank as power grab. Voyeurism coded as innovation.We like to file that under “youthful mistake.” It wasn’t. The logic metastasized. The same impulse that turns women into scores now turns all of us into streams of data—watchable, rankable, profitable—making “If you’re not pay

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