[ThePhysicist]

What's doom scrolling for you is user engagement for the company, and by their definition you're not wasting your time, you're increasing their revenue by seeing and clicking on ads. That's the only thing that really matters to them.

[api]

The Matrix was prophetic, only it’s a phone not a vat and it’s humans behind it not AIs. (Though you are providing training data for AI!)

I always thought a good twist on The Matrix would have been that as a big reveal: humans are running it.