Heather Brooke
American-British investigative journalist and freedom-of-information campaigner whose requests exposed the 2009 UK parliamentary expenses scandal; author of Your Right to Know, The Silent State and The Revolution Will Be Digitised.
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Their wordsThis is the familiar trick of extractive capitalism: turn a structural problem into an individual responsibility.
↗What’s Love got to do with Social Media?heatherbrooke.substack.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Social media platforms exploit our desire for connection while making genuine connection harder.
Their wordsSocial media platforms exploit our desire for connection while making genuine connection harder.
↗What’s Love got to do with Social Media?heatherbrooke.substack.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsOnce our attention is fragmented and our understanding of truth weakened, we become easier to manipulate.
↗What’s Love got to do with Social Media?heatherbrooke.substack.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsIt seems obvious to me that techbros (and they are all bros) are modern-day Dr Frankensteins. They build technology to ‘improve’ life, while having no understanding of what makes life meaningful.
↗What’s Love got to do with Social Media?heatherbrooke.substack.com 4th of 4 in this piece
- 11 months earlier
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Their wordsI think this is one reason we fear death so much more in the West than in cultures where dead bodies are an everyday part of life.
↗Why do we think death is unnatural?heatherbrooke.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsDeath has a lot to teach us and we would be better off facing it head on.
↗Why do we think death is unnatural?heatherbrooke.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsBut our desire not to be snooped on by powerful agents is entirely natural.
- 2 months earlier
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Their wordsOne of the ironies about technology is that instead of it working to accommodate us, we humans have been persuaded to become more machine-like to better accommodate the technology.
↗Humans are works of art, not machinesheatherbrooke.substack.com