We have to be very mindful if we want to assert our purposes through social media. We have to manipulate software that is designed to manipulate us. If we are not careful, social media will turn our sovereign capacities to declare and accommodate against us, leaving us predictable and easy to rule. This is, sadly, not a hypothesis. Surveilled, harried, and nudged, I am undoubtedly less free than I was when I was sitting in Andrzej’s apartment, backpack set aside, computer quiet in a corner. We are all less free. In remembering that scene, I am freer than I would be had I forgotten it. Freedom
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