Porn and video games rule the world.
This includes Twitter. Twitter is both, actually.
All the bandwidth for cloud computing came about because people wanted to watch streaming high-definition porn.
All the gains in neural networks are coming about because of GPUs. We made them to simulate game worlds, now we can simulate the real world.
Twitter is also a simulation of the real world, except it runs on human processing power.
Twitter is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, primarily text-based with limited multimedia support. It combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat.
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) February 10, 2019
Libidinal desire drives technocapital production. If only some philosopher had written about this.