what is Social Media doing to us?

Yeah, @Jack is right https://t.co/sIhNIE3QXV

McLuhan argued that, pushed to its limits, a medium flips or reverses its characteristics. Internet scale pushes information into disinformation, connection into loneliness, and desire into apathy.

The pandemic showed us how tech companies profit immensely when we’re isolated and forced to spend more time staring at screens. The entire push to roll out headsets can’t be separated from that reality: they want us to always be looking at screens.

If Darwin published his theory of natural selection today, the tweet announcing it would be deprioritized because it contained a link, and instead Twitter would show you wisecracks that fit in 280 characters.

You’re distracted by your potential distribution.

It’s amazing how normal it’s become for peoples hobbies to boil down to nothing more than some form of consumption.

Make art, not content https://t.co/HU4Aydurpp

You have permission to kill me if I ever end a tweet with: “If you liked this, follow me for more content like this.”

Visualizing “the current thing” throughout 2023

The main paper I've been working on for the last 3 years is out: "Value Capture"! It's about the harms of taking on external metrics and rankings as your own core values. The argument: you're outsourcing your values. It's fast, but then your values won't be tailored to you.🧵: