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Unsealed Court Documents Show Teen Addiction Was Big Tech's "Top Priority" (techoversight.org)
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Microsite Highlighting Evidence from the Landmark Social Media Addiction Trials.

New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the narrative with parents

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[–] 122 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I am nothing but a peddler of stolen ASCII art and memes I'm afraid.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    This gave me a sudden flashback to the days when I had a program on VAX VMS that would spit out ASCII art to a chat console from a collection of dozens.

    This was also huge on the old WWW III and other BBS Systems over various networks like FIDO. What a time.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Maaan, I read The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll recently and was more than a little jealous of what y’all got to experience. Sounds like it was a blast : )

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Ah damn, I loved that book when I was a kid. I can probably blame it, at least in part, for my career...

    (I was a massive nerd and a FidoNet sysop back in the 80s & 90s, and got my first VMS and Unix experience hopping onto academic networks over dialup and X.25 gateways using, err, "unconventially obtained" credentials... This experience helped me convince my interviewer at Imperial College to overlook my less than stellar academic record to admit me to their Computing peogramme.

    That book - and the movie WarGames - were definitely inspiring, if not life-changing.)

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