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Unsealed Court Documents Show Teen Addiction Was Big Tech's "Top Priority" (techoversight.org)
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Microsite Highlighting Evidence from the Landmark Social Media Addiction Trials.

New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the narrative with parents

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[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 100 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I am nothing but a peddler of stolen ASCII art and memes I'm afraid.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 4 points 5 hours ago

Connoisseur and collector of fine ASCII art you mean. An online archaeologist if you will. :-)

[–] cravl@slrpnk.net 45 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Meme smarter, not harder. 🤌

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 20 hours ago

Preach, sibling.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

This gave me a sudden flashback to the days when I had a program on VAX VMS that would spit out ASCII art to a chat console from a collection of dozens.

This was also huge on the old WWW III and other BBS Systems over various networks like FIDO. What a time.

[–] Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago

Reminded me of dialing in to BBSs to play LORD. I had a nice collection of ANSI and ASCII art. I thought I was hot shit with my i486 that had two hard drives, 100MB & 200MB. Look out world!

[–] reddfugee@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Maaan, I read The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll recently and was more than a little jealous of what y’all got to experience. Sounds like it was a blast : )

[–] timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro 1 points 9 hours ago

Ah damn, I loved that book when I was a kid. I can probably blame it, at least in part, for my career...

(I was a massive nerd and a FidoNet sysop back in the 80s & 90s, and got my first VMS and Unix experience hopping onto academic networks over dialup and X.25 gateways using, err, "unconventially obtained" credentials... This experience helped me convince my interviewer at Imperial College to overlook my less than stellar academic record to admit me to their Computing peogramme.

That book - and the movie WarGames - were definitely inspiring, if not life-changing.)