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I read this book because I misunderstood a recommendation and thought it was a business book talking about how companies get people to forget negative information (e.g. dump news on Friday etc). Boy was that first chapter a wild ride until I figured out it was not in fact a business book

Fun story, strong recommend

I wouldn't be surprised if there's an SCP that's about businesses using antimemetic anomalies to bury bad news. Hell, there's an SCP about a bank that makes deals with devils at industrial scale.

New book coming out soon, for those unaware

Ooh, thanks for saying this! I’ll look out for it.

Their collection “humans in transit” is real good.

It's a rework of the old SCP story, I asked him what changed and he said "too much to mention".

I read the original online so I'm looking forward to pay for a book just to give back. Agreed on hist short stories too!

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub

I get the ref, but... these days, aren't antim*i*metics more of a thing? (& less of a fun fiction?)

To be more concrete:

such technology either already exists now, or has a better shot at preventing stale & shallow (human) takes from hoarding the frontpage.

The U.S. Army was secretly developing antimemetic weaponry as early as the 1940s.