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this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2025
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Third Rail
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The "Third Rail" of USA society year 2024 and year 2025 is Apple iPhone addiction. The third-rail topic of Bluesky Reddit Mastodon is addiction to memes and banal shit-postings. Addiction to Elon Musk / Donald Trump "Shitbird on toilet tweeting bird" content.
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No, I have severe brain damage from all the memes and messages flowing out of Elon Musk's DOGE / X media platform that is wrecking everybody around me in United States of America. You can read about it on my Mastodon and Bluesky profile.
Man, you sure reply quick, within 5 seconds of me posting!
“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.” ― Joseph Weizenbaum, MIT researcher / expert, 1974
Are you new to Lemmy? No, it says you joined: July 11th, 2023 and that you are "old, stupid" (according to your own profile). My profile has my name; here is what is on my user profile of my Lemmy social media account: Stephen Alfred Gutknecht. Professional in social media since 1985, created / sold social media server apps at age 15. Traveled the world to study media ecology. “Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man.” - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine"
"whomever" is pretty dehumanizing, man.