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by archonis 18 days ago
Smartphones in dumb pockets made it all possible.
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johnea 18 days ago
I think it almost doesn't matter what pockets 8-/

The routinely noted decline in US "educational achievement" correlates most closely, with the propagation in the school aged population, of "smartphones" and the algorithmic websites at which they're aimed.

I've been saying lately: Apple caused the collapse of US educational outcomes.

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archonis 18 days ago
Apple certainly played a major part.

The long distance culture war was enabled by long distance visibility.

The whole 'own the libs' thing wouldn't have existed in an era where everybody wasn't paticipating in a medium that made non-local people extremely visible to one another.

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superxpro12 18 days ago
Smartphones did nothing. The "people" who manipulated the reality within them did.

It's no surprise that conservative billionaires went on a massive left-leaning media buying spree... Washington Post, Twitter, CNN, etc etc etc.

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soraminazuki 18 days ago
No, we the tech industry are key enablers. For the past two decades, we were obsessed with refining the methods of mass-surveillance and manipulation. We've brought about tremendous harm to society and it's time to start taking accountability.
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archonis 18 days ago
>> Smartphones in dumb pockets made it all possible.

>>> Smartphones did nothing. The "people" who manipulated the reality within them did.

So those manipulations and their machinations weren't enabled by the existance of smarphones?

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