WHY, OH WHY, IS SHE DOING THIS?
Are you feeding your algorithm or is it feeding you?
morningfyi.substack.com
I realized one of the key reasons why social media makes me feel so out of joint with the world, and with myself. I think all of these ideas—the messages implicit in these mediums—are wrong.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
That all of us are reveling in content slop is an uncomfortable truth. It may be intellectually easier to blame AI as the problem when the issue resides in people and platforms. My double-bind theory argues that attention aggregators have no choice but to allow content that pushes the bounds of social acceptability. Otherwise, engagement moves to a... See more