Is the Tech Press Bad? With The Verge's Casey Newton
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Is the Tech Press Bad? With The Verge's Casey Newton
Algorithmic media incentivizes simplistic discourse, but people remain capable of complexity and compassion in the offline, real world.
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And all I can say is like I think we gotta fight that and that something you can what great is you can actually do that yourself You can fight and like not be a participant in that Sometimes I wonder though well not wonder I think that it is I more of a cynic I think that it ends up being a losing battle because even the first question, right? You
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Center-left's struggle with innovation while right-wing embraces risk-taking and new technologies in smartphone era politics
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Why do you think that is? I think that does get to the class issue that you were talking about.
The center-left got very comfortable being the kind of meritocratic, technocratic elite that always had the right answer, you know, the kind of smarty-pants answer that everybody in there would congratulate them on.
And the
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Explaining 'inshittification' using Facebook, focusing on Stage 1: attracting users and locking them in with high switching costs.
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So here's the Facebook case study. In stage one of Enshitification, firms are good to their end users, but they find a way to lock those end users in. So Mark Zuckerberg, he rolls out the gate with his first public offering beyond just kids with a .edu American college address, but the whole world.
And he says, look, I know all you people have
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