@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. its hard to tell if this is a unique and terminal failing of our era or a temporary pathology of society.

The optimistic view (e.g that is how shosana zuboff ends her book on surveillance capitalism) is that the humanistic ideals are deep rooted and will prevail eventually.

For sure the tools for resisting and charting a different course are available. Its all the open source stuff. Even AI can be rehabilitated if the people operating algorithms had a moral backbone 🤣