Matt⚕️ @Matt⚕️ - 23d
I'm declaring a new mental illness that I'll call Shorts Disorder. Shorts based platforms seem to inspire the most mentally disturbed mother fuckers to post ridiculous videos. And then other disturbed people consume them. It's a vicious Shorts Disorder cycle. DSM-5 it.
liminal @liminal - 23d
> Behavior-altering parasites are parasites capable of causing changes in the behavior of their hosts species to enhance their transmission, sometimes directly affecting the hosts' decision-making and behavior control mechanisms https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-altering_parasite
I've read about some of those. They've inspired lots of fiction 😂
Supernormal stimuli 😮💨 the algos just press that reward button, so many things that optimize for near term goals, and changing behavior.
