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so you can know what all the fuss is about. All right. So speaking of people being idiots on

social media, our first article is called the algorithmic cage from the Atlantic. And it's

not exactly to do with Elon Musk's management style, but it's all related.

And so it highlights prominently that these broligarch losers, unfortunately for all of humanity,

control large swaths of the channels by which people get and assess information.

And therefore, these idiot brolegarch losers have unprecedented ability to shape what

information people are getting and how they perceive the world.

And then as we've been highlighting for years, these companies very much do not care what they display in their news feeds and whether what they display is accurate.

They only care about keeping people engaged.

And the best way to keep people engaged, it turns out, is with disinformation that makes people angry.

So all of that, you know, we're just retreading. But what's new in this new

government is that now the government is also run by a billionaire loser sociopath with daddy

issues and an unfillable hole in his soul who is now pressuring these companies to, as the article puts it, quote,

keep Americans docile, obedient, controlled, and in some cases hopeless, spinning on an

endless hamster wheel of reactive anger.

And then elsewhere in the article said, you know, basically like, prop up the administration.

Prop up the administration, or we will come after you.

And so like what the broligarchs are pretty aware of is that the one thing that has

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