Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
There was Arturo Béjar’s testimony in 2023. The former Facebook engineer told senators, “Meta continues to publicly misrepresent the level and frequency of harm that users, especially children, experience on the platform.”
And there was Frances Haugen’s bombshell testimony in 2021: “I recognized a frightening truth: almost no one outside of Facebook... See more
And there was Frances Haugen’s bombshell testimony in 2021: “I recognized a frightening truth: almost no one outside of Facebook... See more
"To the people whose labors go beyond ideas into the realm of 'real materials'- to the dry-land ecologists, wherever they may be, in whatever time they work, this effort at prediction is dedicated in humility and admiration."
―Frank Herbert
There are two modes of experience: appreciative, and evaluative.
Concrete example: let's say you're listening to a piece of music. Are you sinking into it, awash in emotions? You're in the appreciative mode.
Are you the mixing engineer, listening to the snare hits to make sure they're consistent? You're in the evaluative mode.
Much of sanity, and
... See moredistilled happiness to the knowledge that you have enough. It is not an easy knowledge to live with amid the commodified counterfeits of happiness that light up these sunset days of Western civilization, with its mesmerism of maximums and its cult of more, materially and spiritually — capitalism goads us to do more in order to own more while the... See more
Maria Popova • The Marginalian
emily dickinson
But the same dynamics that turn a slightly lonely young man into a seething misogynist—recommendation algorithms; social contexts that concentrate and intensify discourse—are also the dynamics that turn a young person who “likes reading” into someone who spends a year reading Proust, and then the next two years trying to find friends who want to... See more
