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While current logic demands that we become super-productive beings or reproductive organs of money, the space for personal autonomy and self-determination that would allow us to become masters of our own time and our own lives is conspicuously absent. We live in a constant struggle for our time. Every minute spent on a digital platform is a minute lost for another activity. Are we aware of this trade-off? What is our room for maneuver and choice in the face of these types of situations?

While this isn’t “news” it’s very well put together, in such a way that it seems kind of significant? Did anyone else read it?

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I just did and it made me want to take a break from the digital world once again and possibly make a good practice of intermittently taking technology breaks.. It might help someone else as well. But as the introduction suggested there is no new info here. Just a lot of 'perspective' stuff.

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I mean, isn't this just a numbers game?

Like, I'm sure there's modeling software somehow that clearly describes that if X number of people post this specific narrative, then out of the population that receive the information containing that narrative, Y number of people will act in Z specific manner.

Once your population approaches infinity, then the certainty of specific outcomes from specific prompts rises towards 100%.

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lemmy.world

I too am driven by studies and data collected from my PNAS.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

What a fancy word for gov't psyops SOP against one's own citizenry. 🖕🏻

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TIL "Cognitive Sovereignty," which argues that modern psychopolitics—subtle control via digital platforms—exploits attention, supported by a 2025 PNAS Nexus study | Spyke