scalable stupidity – Harold Jarche

On the final Friday of every month I curate a few of the observations and insights that have been shared on social media. I name these Friday’s Finds.

“The web didn’t make us silly. It made stupidity scalable.” —J.A. Westenberg

“All the pieces pale into mist. The previous was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie turned reality.” —George Orwell, ‘1984’

“you may give somebody a fish after which educate them to fish. It’s lots simpler to discover ways to fish whenever you’re not ravenous.” —ebel aurora

“Employers: Everybody should return to the workplace, as a result of we work greatest when individuals collaborate face-to-face.
Additionally: We’re going to exchange everybody with AI.”
—Jeff Johnson

How Gen Z Turned the Most Gullible Technology

“The proof is obvious that people of all ages battle to make sense of the overwhelming quantity of knowledge that they encounter on-line, and we have to work out methods to assist individuals, to seek out higher methods to make sense of the content material that streams throughout their units.”

Pluralistic: Sarah Wynn-Williams’s ‘Careless Individuals’

Fb tames its workers, releasing it from labor penalties for its dangerous acts. As engineering provide catches up with demand, Fb’s management come to comprehend that they don’t have to fret about workforce uprisings, whether or not incited by impunity for sexually abusive bosses, or by the corporate’s complicity in genocide and autocratic oppression.

First, Fb turns into too large to fail.
Then, Fb turns into too large to jail.
Lastly, Fb turns into too large to care.

That is the “carelessness” that in the end adjustments Fb for the more serious, that turns it into the hellscape that Wynn-Williams is ultimately fired from after she speaks out as soon as too typically. Fb bosses aren’t simply “careless” as a result of they refuse to learn a briefing notice that’s longer than a tweet. They’re “careless” within the sense that they arrive at a juncture the place they don’t should care who they hurt, whom they enrage, who they destroy.