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Prof. Timothy Snyder's books "On Tyranny" and "On Freedom" provide some ideas. The first one might be more relevant now that trump won, but second one talks about how oligarchs are stealing wealth from us and how they now use technology for their advantage including social media.

There are also interviews on YouTube with him.

Edit: apparently he also has a substack: https://snyder.substack.com/

I highly recommend On Freedom book but Timothy Snyder, it basically talks how the wealth is being stolen from us and now with help of modern technology like social media.

That sum is close to the 44 billion spent on Twitter, could that somehow be the payment for it via inflating Tesla stock price?

Sure, but it's that wrong to asking for something? The studio can always ignore such request.

Many games welcome mods, because those can increase interest in the game or provide new ideas.

Ciekawa analiza, ale razy słyszałem, że bsky jest zdecentralizowany ale nie miałem pojęcia jak. Ale wygląda, że z punktu widzenia użytkownika to nie ma zbytnio znaczenia, bo kontrola jest nadal centralna.

To samo obserwuję i to nie tylko Facebook.

It's not just wearables, I was using oximeter and heat rate monitor and when asking, doctor just dismissed it. Apparently consumer grade devices don't really have any certifications that they have to share to, so to my doctor or was just a nose that can't be used for diagnostics.

So given that those devices don't have proper verification to be used for diagnostics, why are they being pushed on us? If doctors are not interested, why social media comments are?

I think under the excuse that it can detect something early the reason is more sinister. Imagine what additional extra information they can get off they see for example that your heart rate increases when viewing a polarizing subject, that's quite additional wealth of information about of you that can easily help find what issues you care about and then use that in the future.

It is disinformation warfare. We can argue this and that should be done, but it is unlikely it would make much difference. Many people who voted for trump had believed Harris positions that were opposite from reality. People get their news from social media which is easily manipulated.

Ironically social media are no longer social, they are full of bots and AI generated content that is used to manipulate our views.

I doubt it. We are continue to underestimate information warfare. Look at Romania. A guy sympathetic to Russia who no one heard about few months ago won the first round.

The same techniques were used this election and previous one in US and Europe and we still ignoring it.

Europe didn't have war for 70 years thanks to NATO and EU.

The 2nd goal of NATO is to unite countries to be be powerful enough to fight an enemy, but #1 goal of NATO is to create an awareness that of somebody attacks one NATO country, they are starting war with 32 countries at once. It always was a deterrent and that's what Ukraine really wants.

The manipulation is affecting others as well. You want to see how well it works, look how pro Russia candidate in Romania who no one knew won first round, and might win the next one.

Fair point, but everyone else is for profit, it is their fight for domination, I don't think we are gaining much one way or the other.