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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by robrenaud on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @01:49PM (#23314218)
I read that discussion as it was happening on the internal FB@work. Oh man, there were so many true believers replying about how this was so wise and inspiring. As far as I remember, no one questioned him. I wish I had posted that in a biological context, something that grows without bound or care for its environment is cancer. There is Boz arguing that Facebook is cancer.
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by jcims on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @02:06PM (#23314422)
Cancer is just a specialized case of evolution that in many instances is turbocharged by genetic instability...essentially the biological form of 'move fast and break things'. This results a very adaptive germline that handily outcompetes everything constrained by purpose while also overcoming novel threats thrown at it by the greatest medical minds of our time.

If it didn't kill people that we love we'd marvel at its capability.

Is Facebook a 'cancer'? I think it's more of a cultural radiological device that exposes the cancer that's already there.

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