darpa, cognitive infiltration, social media, video games  the free market didn't create the modern technologies upon which slop culture is focused: > social media > video games > smartphones these were developed to become the focal point of modern politics, commerce, and information warfare. they were not the product of "what was most profitable"; they were developed with funding from defense research agencies, using private corporations within the military-industrial complex, selected for their cooperation, given sweet-heart deals to develop the technology based on formerly-secret government research > facebook was the private corporate reincarnation of darpa's "lifelog" program to take their lifelog project "live" they simply privatized it as a corporate entity, rebranded it, and promoted the ceo as a celebrity figure with hollywood biopics and suggestive media coverage > (picrel) the ultimate purpose of social media is to collect enough behavioral data to accurately predict every thought and reaction of individuals, not just for marketing and political control, but (specifically) to program ai based on dataset profiles of indivduals.   _lifelog   a-computing-pioneer-a-secret-govern ment-program-and-a-strange-coincide nce/
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