Sam Liebeskind

Global mega-platforms under capitalism are structurally incapable of handling the business of civilization: of governance, of providing genuinely public infrastructure, of making knife-edge decisions about the balance of liberties and securities. It’s not what they do or what they want to do, and in many cases it’s in opposition to their actual... See more

So yes, Americans are materially wealthy and unfulfilled, and the primary problem is cultural—we’ve sacrificed community and meaning to emphasize an archetype built on acquiring as much stuff as possible, but then we have made that unnecessarily hard to do. When you give your citizens a cultural script, built on the material, that promises hard... See more

Similarly, some users want to categorize their emails into more fine-grained folders other than the default “Spam” or “Promotions” folders [ 63 , 98 ]. As a result, there have been growing calls to empower end users to customize content curation classi-fiers [ 42 , 43 ]. In particular, researchers have argued for personal content moderation tools... See more