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"Social media adds another layer of alienation because the learning algorithm is a superstructure built on top, a simulacrum of a simulacrum of a simulacrum of actual human behavior."
"The fourth stage is pure simulacrum, in which the simulacrum has no relationship to any reality whatsoever. Here, signs merely reflect other signs and any claim to reality on the part of images or signs is only of the order of other such claims. This is a regime of total equivalency, where cultural "
"2010s and 2020s activism, however, can be encompassed by people constantly evoking images of 60s radicalism - and the successes that came with it - as a sort of reference point to justify literally everything they do in the face of total inefficacy."