This. This is what humanity is up against: people behind the programs who think everything in life should be the way they want it. It’s all programmable, right? Tailor that show to your preferences: delete the scenes you don’t like. But why stop there? Delete the ugly people. The old ones. Delete the races you despise, the genders. It doesn’t matter if the story no longer makes sense, though I’m sure you’ll complain about that and insist AI should rewrite what’s left so it does. But why stop there? Do it with books. Delete the words you don’t understand. The characters that confront you with yourself. The plot lines that challenge your beliefs. Why not, they’re doing that in libraries. This is more efficient. But why stop there? Delete the people who don’t think like you. The people with interests other than yours. The people with opposing political beliefs, with religious views unlike yours, with jobs you don’t understand. The people who make art and music and poetry and literature because they enjoy it. The people with illnesses, physical or mental. The people with disabilities. There’s something familiar about that, isn’t there? There’s a name for that, isn’t there? That’s where you’re going. That’s where this line of thought leads. There are no other destinations, it all winds up at the same place. Look in the mirror. See what you are. We do.

@effthealgorithm That's the thing. Social media with its algorithms, cognitive impairment and the general decline in empathy have lead people to think everything in this world is/should be catered to their needs. It's a stupid, narcissistic main character syndrome playing out in real time.

@inrotandindecay And we all pay for it.

@effthealgorithm Absolutely, sadly.