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Prompt: we’re all users but what are we using and how do we use it and how are we going to use it and you know the thing about users, and using, and those who are users is that it never actually ends—it just keeps folding back on itself like some kind of Möbius strip made of thumbs and eyeballs and subscriptions. We wake up already mid-swipe, already logged in, already consuming the thing that’s consuming the metric of how much we consumed yesterday so it can show us more of the same tomorrow. And the wild part is we call it “using” like we’re in control, like we’re the ones holding the tool instead of the tool holding a detailed psychological profile of exactly which dopamine schedule will keep us coming back for one more hit of whatever it is we think we’re choosing. Take the phone. We use the phone to check the time, to message somebody, to look up a recipe, to see if the market moved, to watch a clip of somebody else using their phone to complain about using their phone. But the phone is using our retinas, our thumb tendons, our sleep cycles, our sense of what counts as “enough.” It’s using the fact that we hate silence and uncertainty and the possibility that nobody texted us back. It turns our boredom into inventory. Every notification is a tiny invoice for the attention we didn’t even realize we were spending. And we pay it gladly because the alternative feels like standing in an empty room with our own thoughts, and who the hell wants to be the only user in that particular interface? Then zoom out and it gets weirder. We’re users of entire economic operating systems that were designed by people who understood one thing very clearly: if you can make someone feel like they’re choosing, they’ll use twice as much and complain half as loudly. We use the apps, the platforms, the delivery services, the “experiences,” and in exchange those systems use our location data, our purchase history, our hesitation patterns, our late-night scrolling to predict what we’ll use next before we even know we want it. It’s not even manipulation anymore—it’s just infrastructure. || extremely hard prog Belgian techno verbatim voice over || no singing about the music, structure, performance, musicality etc

Created: 2026-07-07T17:49:03.950Z