<p>If you read just one thing today, make sure it's this: "Google is killing the open web" a brilliantly written and researched piece by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://sociale.network/@oblomov" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>oblomov</span></a></span> that will get you riled up and eager to defend the <a href="/tags/openweb/" rel="tag">#OpenWeb</a> against the incessant attacks by <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a>:<br><br>🔗: <a href="https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/goog</span><span class="invisible">le-killing-open-web/</span></a><br><br><a href="/tags/longread/" rel="tag">#LongRead</a> <a href="/tags/resist/" rel="tag">#resist</a></p>
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<p>The result is that X/Twitter is a Pornhub where everything is twisted around the particular kinks of a specific, and visibly disturbed individual. Whatever Musk wants, as the Voice of God, may or may not become the Voice of the People, but is probably what the people are going to end up talking about, whether they want to or not. This is what gives X/Twitter its Philip K. Dick quality - it’s like Dick’s novel Ubik, in which the characters repeatedly find their world being pulled back into the mental patterns of a predatory teenager-turned-existential-vampire, Jory Miller.<br></p>From <a href="https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis" rel="nofollow">We're getting the social media crisis wrong</a>: The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics<br><br><a href="/tags/longread/" rel="tag">#LongRead</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/disinformation/" rel="tag">#disinformation</a> <a href="/tags/misinformation/" rel="tag">#misinformation</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a> <a href="/tags/x/" rel="tag">#X</a> <a href="/tags/twitter/" rel="tag">#twitter</a><br>
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