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These deranged takes, and their unnerving proximity to online monetization, are case studies in the way that our world—digitally mediated, utterly consumed by capitalism—makes communication about morality very easy but makes actual moral living very hard. You don’t end up using a news story about a dead toddler as a peg for white entitlement
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crisis of taste,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
These sites harm people’s ability to pay attention as individuals. Then they pump the population’s heads full of grotesque falsehoods, to the point where they can’t distinguish real threats to their existence (an authoritarian leader pledging to shoot them) from nonexistent threats
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
It was like having a big party sponsored by Mazda, and all that meant was having the Mazda logo on the Solo... See more
Adam Mastroianni • The Slop School of Internet Success and other lies about cyberspace
human tastemakers,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
While the obstruction of taste and the tactic of corrupt personalization may feel like individual problems—users must work harder to identify what they truly like—it also quickly scales up into massive social issues. When millions of consumers are subtly misled and thus ultimately fed what they consume, certain kinds of culture are choked off from
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