Tech Capture

What's being done to our attention, who did it on purpose, and what to do about it.

Tech capture is another phrase for how social media platforms and AI products are manipulating human attention, through a combination of psychology, algorithmic design, and our oldest survival instincts, used against our best interests.

This section is the evidence. It's in four parts, and you can read them in any order.

• The Builders — the people who designed it, in their own words, and the mechanics they built
• The Audience Farmers — the pages that aren't movements, and how the farm pays
• The Chatbots — engagement logic applied to something that talks back
• Staying Sovereign — what to do, and why a list alone won't hold

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