Tomasz Aleksander
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Tomasz Aleksander
@TomAleksander
writer, director, Leeds lad, Leeds fan and creator of Boy North Films. vegan 🌱
Leeds/London Katılım Ocak 2011
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Mark Zuckerberg just described the death of human connection on the internet and no one flinched.
One sentence. Fifteen years of erosion in twelve words.
Mark Zuckerberg: “Social media started out as people primarily interacting with their friends. And now… at least half of the content is basically people interacting with creators.”
You used to open your phone to see what your friends were doing.
Now you open it to watch strangers.
You did not choose this. The algorithm chose it for you.
It tested your friends against optimized strangers.
Your friends lost. Every time.
A stranger with better lighting, better timing, and a better hook held your attention three seconds longer than someone who loves you.
So the algorithm buried your best friend’s wedding photos under a cooking video from someone in Dubai you have never met.
And you watched the cooking video.
That was the first replacement. Friends for strangers. You barely noticed.
The second one is already underway.
If the algorithm already proved strangers outperform your real relationships, and AI can now build a stranger more engaging than any human alive, the math finishes itself.
The AI does not have a bad week. It does not post something careless and lose the algorithm’s favor. It does not burn out.
Every word calibrated.
Every frame tuned.
Every pause placed at the exact interval that keeps your thumb from moving.
A human creator competing against that is carving stone tablets in a world that just built the printing press.
The economics are not even close.
A person needs rent, sleep, and motivation.
The machine needs electricity.
When the cost of generating perfect content hits zero, the feed fills with faces that do not exist.
Voices that feel familiar.
Opinions that mirror yours just enough to feel like trust.
Personalities built from scratch to feel like someone you have known for years.
You will not know when the switch happens.
That is the point.
The feed does not care whether the thing holding your attention has a pulse. It cares whether you stay.
And a machine that knows your patterns better than you know yourself will always keep you longer than a person ever could.
This is not a warning. Half of it already happened.
You lost your friends to strangers and did not notice.
You will lose the strangers to machines and call them friends.
Somewhere in a different app, in a different tab, in a room you are sitting in right now, someone who actually knows you is living a moment you will never see.
Not because they stopped sharing it.
Because you stopped being where it was.
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At 32, she hadn’t had a period in nearly a year.
Doctors told her she'd need IVF to get pregnant, but she proved them wrong.
Meet PhD toxicologist Dr. Yvonne Burkart.
She just went live with @StevenBartlett to expose the 7 toxins that are poisoning you daily🧵


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Phone theft: 5 must-dos to secure your data in case your mobile’s nicked!
Courtesy of @itvMLshow ‘Slash mobile phone bills and insurance costs’. Watch the full show on itv.com/watch/the-mart…
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HUGE kudos to this man! Has evolved and grown as a manager this season, adapting Leeds’ shape and formation, coming up with solid Plan B’s, not being afraid of the big calls and making brave subs when needed.
More than worthy at this level and a big factor in today’s win.
#LUFC

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👏 @ZackPolanski absolutely nailed the tone that the mainstream has lost 👉confident, compassionate, and funny - with great grooves 🕺 at the end!
Just the antidote we need to Starmer’s managerial dead air and Farage’s cynical populism.
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