This TED Talk video says more clearly a lot of stuff I've been thinking about lately: Why fascism is so tempting -- and how your data could power it | Yuval Noah Harari

One thought spinning off this: the corporations "know you better than you know yourself", but they can't use mass-media to target everyone individually -- which means they generally aim for the most common emotional hacks, the way most viruses aim for Windows or Mac systems rather than Linux.

That means that us neurodiverse oddballs tend to have higher immunity to those messages, and end up being the ones to sound the alarm rather than getting sucked in.

Corporations can use social media for more precise targeting -- but many of us have also moved away from the commercial venues (where they have privileged access) because of how toxic it is to us -- so we're still protected to a large extent... and of course the odder (less numerous as far as vulnerability to any particular attack-vector) we are, the less likely it is that they'll spend the resources to tailor a compatible hack and distribute it widely enough that we'll get caught by it.

So... ya know... weirdos will save the world. (Thank you for coming to my TED Tagalong Talk.)

cc: @dredmorbius @eryn