Brad Barrish

If you have time to consume, you have time to create.

I say please and thank you, not because I believe it matters to him, but because it matters to me. If I am going to use natural English to communicate for much of my working day, I do not want to bark orders meanly. It makes me feel like a jerk.

As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself.

Bad actors want to sort out what bot styles get the most responses for engagement farming. Bluesky is light on algorithms that filter what you can see, but spammers got in the habit of exploring how the algorithms work on Twitter, Facebook, and Threads so they could exploit them.