“It is not a mild infection, it is not a mild virus; it is a severe illness. And they kept on telling me they wish they’d known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family,” she said.
“It is not a mild infection, it is not a mild virus; it is a severe illness. And they kept on telling me they wish they’d known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family,” she said.
Algorithmic engagement prioritized this shit over established medical science. Big Tech undermined all the pillars of society. What a fucking mess.
Capitalism. Capitalism caused this. Big Tech is just a vessel that is used by capitalists to further their agenda.
Big Tech is a force multiplier. It amplifies the scale and scope of the damage. To make an analogy, it’s like replacing muskets with machine guns. Capitalism was headed this direction long before tech came along, but with tools like these in their pocket, the scale of the disinformation went from “a serious problem” to “an existential crisis”, and the tools we have to resist it are simply incapable of holding the line against the firehose of BS.
That’s what I was trying to say, but I like your explanation better than mine. 😅
Also known as Brandolini’s law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini’s_law
At the end of the day those people chose to believe some random blog over medical journals, university publications, and the advice of doctors. There is no other word for that than stupidity, algorithms or no.
Blaming stupidity itself fails to address those who seek to exploit it.
No matter the cause or effect, stupidity is the root of the problem. You can’t exploit a weakness that doesn’t exist.
Unfortunately, I was reading somewhere recently (I think it might have been a t-shirt?) that, “you can’t fix stupid.”
You can. I fixed myself to some extend
Are you sure?
They did qualify said fixing as ‘some’.
Human nature is the root problem. It encompasses stupidity, greed, and violence, and many other traits - all of which are available to every human.
i love it when people say “i’m too smart for propaganda to work on me” because all i have to do is find out their rough location to find what propaganda they’ve been falling for.
It’s a good thing that’s not what I said then isn’t it