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Four Weddings & A Funeral | No Mercy / No Malice
In the late aughts, Twitter and Facebook still valued curiosity, but over the next decade they realized that it wasn't good for business; curiosity brought people to their platforms, but then it whisked them away. So Facebook began paying news companies to make videos that could be hosted on the site, so that users would never leave the page. Twitt
... See morefrom The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small | Defector by Kelsey McKinney
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- Tech culture has created a Wild West of real and simulated individuals, and infested its terrain with manias, biases, and irritability. I’m not suggesting that data dignity is a perfect or complete solution, or that it should replace all of the other ideas in play. But no idea is working well enough right now, despite an urgent need, and data digni... See more
from How to Fix Twitter—And All of Social Media by Jaron Lanier
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- Twitter is the public war zone; it is the new parliament where ideas are shared and challenged, and it’s actually upstream of governments. You can learn a lot from Twitter by following interesting people and accounts, but it is easy to overdose on the serendipity of it
from Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 519 by Balaji S. Srinivasan
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