Watching people chat about potentially inflammatory topics makes it evident that the “institutional inbreeding”, as I like to call it, is working well.

People don’t even realize they’ve been programmed to spew certain viewpoints without question.

Decades of programming work as intended.

✳︎ design engineer → @ponder 
✳︎ explorer of humanism • petrolhead/gearhead
✳︎ React/SwiftUI
✳︎ bento.me/matthew

perhaps nowhere more clearly as the israel-palestine conflict in its latest iteration. a pretty complex geopolitical issue has been reduced to which flag you have in your bio and either israel gud or israel bad.