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Last night, the Senate officially voted to end taxpayer funding for NPR.
To celebrate, we read some of the NPR CEO's most deranged tweets.
Enjoy. https://t.co/HkZibmJPMT
Eric Schmittx.comThe trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.
‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It (Published 2017)
The term Alt-Right was not yet a thing, certainly not like it would become within a few short years. The biggest and most innovative name by far in this internet scene was Mencius Moldbug, the pseudonym of programmer Curtis Yarvin. Moldbug’s blog was called “Unqualified Reservations,” and it was as remarkable for its radical ideology as for
... See moreMichael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
the web, of course) a study conducted by some very clever researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Social media algorithms identify our politics and then shepherd us into a hermetically sealed bubble, framing our worldview through a window of rage and extremism.
Scott Galloway • No Mercy / No Malice
For decades, editors left thousands of important stories off radio, newspapers, and televisions. Without awareness of an issue, people are uninformed because they don’t even know an issue exists. But on the internet, mistakes are made out in the open, in public, where everybody can see them. Transgressions are captured, shared, and amplified by the... See more
David Perell • What the Hell Is Going On?
number of new sources,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
“The idea that we get our information as citizens through algorithms determined by the world’s largest advertising company is my definition of dystopia.”