totally, and for those people in your life send them this:

https://mastodon.social/@patrickleavy/113786560451990077

ooh, that is absolutely chilling and brings detail to what I only vaguely knew before 😰

I would point out that I was talking about attention. I think this is an under-appreciated threat in the digital discussions. While privacy invasion is obviously creepy (and dehumanizing and sometimes deadly), the scattering of our attention erodes our ability to personally and collectively focus and act: robs us of our political agency.

I fully agree dude. Big tech are making all of us into short attention span, high anxiety idiots.

Especially the short form videos - Tiktok and YouTube shorts etc - they're making our kids into morons 😬

And with AI shortly we'll be renting our previous intelligence back from big tech 😂😳

right! And I think this is somehow one of those things everyone knows, but it's not broken through to being a public topic, like the emperors new clothes.

I just wonder if "we", the people who are not looking away from issues of digital privacy, can add the issue of attention erosion to our discussions. This is not a competition! One issue reinforces the other.

that's a good move linking the two topics.

Perhaps those who care about one could hook in the audience who care about the other and vice versa.

I'm going to be setting up a foundation soon that will be educating about digital privacy, so we'll bring that topic up too 😁

Oh, that is exciting! Good luck and looking forward to hearing about it. What will it do differently to, say EFF?

Well, let me know if you ever want to team up on this topic: it keeps coming back to me, and I'm looking for ways to act on it.

Groups I knew who are/should be particularly interested in attention stuff:
- mental health/wellness
- meditation/mindfulness
- creatives
- anarchists/socialists