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On firehoses and filters: Part 1
Extrapolating this into the realm of strangers, I worry that if we let our real-life interactions be corralled by our filter bubbles and branded identities, we are also running the risk of never being surprised, challenged, or changed—never seeing anything outside of ourselves, including our own privilege.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Information networks should have more 'serendipity' filters that take you outside the things you normally see. Follow graphs and interest graphs are great - but they are far more vulnerably to groupthink, tunnel vision, and filter bubbles.
In the old days, our challenge was accessing information. These days, our challenge is curating it. To make sense of the world, for ourselves and those we hope to move, we must wade through a mass of material flowing at us every day—selecting what’s relevant and discarding what’s not. Trouble is, most of us don’t have any method to attack the madne
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