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The feed refreshes... the light flickers...
A quiet click... and truth dissolves.
Scrolling rivers of illusion,
Truth and lies in tight collusion.
Every heartbeat’s just a metric now,
While the code decides who we allow.
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It learns our fear, it feeds our doubt,
It keeps us in, and locks us out.
Is the algorithm humanity’s greatest threat?
The code forgets what humans don’t forget.
It don’t feel guilt, it don’t regret,
Is the algorithm humanity’s greatest threat?
Echo chambers singing praise,
Machine eyes count our lonely days.
We trade our souls for endless scrolls,
While profit writes our human roles.
It shapes our dreams, rewires our fight,
Turns black and white to endless night.
Is the algorithm humanity’s greatest threat?
Where hearts are data, and truth’s in debt.
It feeds on rage, it feeds on pain,
And sells us storms disguised as rain.
The voices rise, distorted, breaking—
A million minds in silence shaking.
We built the code to set us free,
Now it’s rewriting what we’ll be.
Is the algorithm our mirror or our cage?
Our final page... our digital age.
Is the algorithm humanity’s greatest threat?
Maybe not yet… but we forget.
