The EAs were too “woke” and too concerned with appearances.
The EAs were too “woke” and too concerned with appearances.
Without this expertise, he said he thought that the company had built incentives into the app that encouraged users and media outlets to write tweets and headlines that appealed to sensationalism instead of accuracy.
Michael Barbaro • Jack Dorsey on Twitter’s Mistakes (Published 2020)
The old high-low spectrum was policed by people who shared identity markers, experiences, and educational backgrounds, so it reflects their prejudices.
time • Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste
The author never met anybody who would trade our social order for theirs, who wants to go back to that old Princeton world. And yet ... and yet there are disturbing ghosts around the campus. The old order haunts this one, and whispers that maybe something was lost as well as gained when we sacrificed all for the sake of high achievement, safety, an... See more
David Brooks • The Organization Kid
The educated elite is anxious because its members are torn between their drive to succeed and their fear of turning into sellouts.
David Brooks • Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
Facebook’s goal of showing people only what they were interested in seeing resulted, within a decade, in the effective end of shared civic reality.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Obviously ideas have always gained and lost popularity throughout history. But I think it’s fair to say the conditions that disrupt the so-called arc of progress have intensified beyond comprehension. Mass media’s emphasis on images and appearances has shifted the political discourse to a facile imitation of its former self.