Post #3145852
2026-06-06 00:47 UTC
Replies (4)
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@mason@partychickens.net 2026-06-06 05:57
@lindsey@recurse.social @byorgey@mathstodon.xyz That was a wonderful message. There's an analogy I like. McDonald's is "inevitable" and "here to stay" but that doesn't mean I'm going to eat there. The analogy can go further: McDonald's makes stuff shaped like food, and the materials they use could have been real food if prepared with love and care, but instead it's slop and it will harm you if you eat it. McDonald's turns people who might have been chefs into food assembly-line workers. But man, they can crank out a lot of lines of slop. McDonald's takes their profits and uses them to support demonstrably evil people doing demonstrably evil things. And much like what we see in the bubble engines, McDonald's formulates their stuff to be addictive. They use salt, fat, and sugar where the tech fad du jour uses reinforcement loops. They're both wielding dopamine to capture us. I feel like we'll get through this. Teachers sending messages like that one are going to be an important part of it.
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@byorgey@mathstodon.xyz 2026-06-06 13:29
@lindsey@recurse.social aww, thanks!
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@catilac@infosec.exchange 2026-06-06 17:43
@lindsey@recurse.social @byorgey@mathstodon.xyz thanks for sharing this! Educators need to care about cultivating (time,space,ability) for deep thought more. Instead of tossing it all aside when the world looks like it's moving in a "inevitable" direction
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@RuchiraSDatta@mathstodon.xyz 2026-06-06 21:08
@lindsey@recurse.social @byorgey@mathstodon.xyz I am not able to access that link.