beyond the algorithm
The "what about me" internet
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Reading Simone Weil in the age of TikTok
YouTube ist actually in die andere Richtung gewandelt - die Videos sind viel länger geworden.
Dass die Videos kürzer waren lag auch daran, dass die Leute nicht so viel im Internet waren und ein normales Leben hatten.
„People are not distracted from work by the internet, but they are distracted from the internet
... See moreWhy I don't like algorithmic/filter bubbles/for you feeds:
I refuse to be one thing. I’m two things, three things, a hundred things at once, and I’ll be a hundred different things tomorrow. I don’t want the convenience of being collapsed, defined, optimized for legibility. I want to be aerated, blobby, and porous. I w... See more
Algorithmus
The real crisis isn’t that we are overwhelmed by other people’s suffering. We are collapsing because we have learned how to witness it without entering it, without letting it rearrange us, without making space for it to mean anything.
If being ignored hollows us out, then being truly seen (not liked, not followed, not “engaged with”) but seen, can feel almost unbearable. Because while we claim to crave attention, many of us are silently terrified of what it might uncover. What if someone looks too closely and sees the neediness we have camouflaged as chill? The resentment we hav... See more
we have become so allergic to presence, so habituated to fragmented attention, that stillness now feels like failure and eye contact like a threat. Attention, once the invisible pulse of love, art, learning, even political consciousness, has been broken down, bundled, and resold to the highest bidder, not only making us distracted, but emotionally ... See more
Where to find media to consume instead of doomscrolling
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