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What replaces it is not yet clear. My students do not appear to be nihilists (which is remarkable to me for reasons I will get into in another essay).
This is the part where the Pope has a lot to say in the encyclical, and leans heavily upon when describing the problems of concentrated digital power.
The biggest exceptions are local news startups, which are building trust, evolving business models for journalism, and building far more representativ
Dewey’s faith in the potential of institutions that treat democratic knowledge not as a problem to be managed but as a capacity to be cultivated is ha
With Monitor Local, The Maine Monitor expands to civic news — written by local residents — for rural counties
We rely on good journalism to understand the world around us, but those newsrooms need engagement, subscriptions, and membership to survive. AI interm
The biggest exceptions are local news startups, which are building trust, evolving business models for journalism, and building far more representativ
Search engines built an ecosystem that benefited publishers and the platforms,but publishers see those same platforms as continually taking more value
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We rely on good journalism to understand the world around us, but those newsrooms need engagement, subscriptions, and membership to survive. AI interm
Long-tail users of user-centered design are not given the degree of control necessary to adapt the design object or tool to their unique needs, and de
The engineer who truly understands the problem often finds that the elegant solution is simpler than anyone expected. The engineer who starts with a
What Is a Good Activation Rate
Social media stopped being primarily about connecting socially a long time ago. People still use a range of technologies to connect to friends and bui
Taste for Privacy: How Context, Identity, and Lived-Experience Shape Information Sharing Preferences
The social-platform layer offers the feeling of encounter with the friction surgically removed. As one analysis of Gen Z’s parasocial turn put it, onl
The protocol world has been trying to solve the problem of how to leave, and the next step is working on how we can stay together.
But I don’t think platform companies should—or can—act as the governance layer of our online lives. In this, I share tech journalist and Bluesky board
Decentralized networks are harder to infiltrate and harder to destroy. This movement is not leaderless, but leaderful, and there are no few specific p
The protocol world has been trying to solve the problem of how to leave, and the next step is working on how we can stay together.
What’s more, another study establishes that knowing that their parents value kindness above achievement protects kids’ well-being.
Children who feel valued in this way, and who believe that what they do adds value, generally come to understand that they matter. And a sense of matt
For what it’s worth, in raising our own kids we created an effective, balanced, common-sense approach based not on rules but on three principles. Trea
Three Reasons to Be a Parent
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If left unmanaged, conflicts naturally tend to escalate in both scale and scope. AI should help us stay towards the lower left of this graph. But tha
Can AI Mediation Help Bridge Political Divides?
Spoken disagreement is more constructive than written ... - Nature
A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy
If left unmanaged, conflicts naturally tend to escalate in both scale and scope. AI should help us stay towards the lower left of this graph. But tha
Can AI Mediation Help Bridge Political Divides?
Spoken disagreement is more constructive than written ... - Nature
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It was only because I showed up and I paid attention," he said. "I looked for places to go. I looked for communities to join. I looked for ways to bec
What replaces it is not yet clear. My students do not appear to be nihilists (which is remarkable to me for reasons I will get into in another essay).
The volunteer tourists inherited it from the backpackers and gave it a moral upgrade. Now you weren’t just searching for the authentic Other; you were
The social-platform layer offers the feeling of encounter with the friction surgically removed. As one analysis of Gen Z’s parasocial turn put it, onl
Bourdain is the figure (an avatar, really) where the lineage became a media product, where elsewhere stopped being a place the Western seeker went to
What replaces it is not yet clear. My students do not appear to be nihilists (which is remarkable to me for reasons I will get into in another essay).
“A market had opened up for illiberal transgressions, no matter how banal and empty. According to Marx, cultural inertia accelerated this development.
Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
The reflex Rousseau articulated was not, fundamentally, about travel. It was about the location of the cure. Modernity is hollow; the cure exists wher