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A child need not encounter violent, pornographic, or hateful content to suffer profound harm; it is enough to be entrapped by infinite scroll mechanisms, gamified feedback loops, or pseudo-choice interfaces that distort perception, erode self-control, and monetise vulnerability. These harms are not accidental—they are deliberate artefacts of behavi... See more
Dr Mark R Leiser • Systemic Manipulation, Child Vulnerability, and the Regulatory Deficit in Ofcom’s Framework
Bonfire
bonfirenetworks.org
My claim is that the new phone-based childhood that took shape roughly 12 years ago is making young people sick and blocking their progress to flourishing in adulthood. We need a dramatic cultural correction, and we need it now.
Jonathan Haidt • The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling
Mario Gabrielethegeneralist.substack.com
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Nir Eyal • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
The online world was his stage; he just needed to decide who would come out from behind the curtain.
Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
Over the past decade, the social networks broke their promise to content creators.
The backlash has just begun.
New @ScreenshotEssay: The Algorithmic Feed, Content Creators, and Broken Promises
