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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Zachary Burkett
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At a conservative estimate, infinite scroll makes you spend 50 percent more of your time on sites like Twitter. (For many people, Aza believes, it’s vastly more.) Sticking with this low-ball percentage, Aza wanted to know what it meant, in practice, if billions of people were spending 50 percent more on a string of social-media sites. When he was
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cold-blooded need for control.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Jia Tolentino on the Internet’s Endless Stage | Crooked Media
crooked.comRight-wing populism seeks power by closing doors, halting change, and venerating the businesses and dominance hierarchies of the past. Scarcity is its handmaiden. So too is the sense that governments today are weak and corrupt and, therefore, that strongmen are needed to see the world clearly and deliver on democracy’s failed promises.
Ezra Klein • Abundance
Stephen Schwarzman realized that problems are best addressed indirectly:
“In my final year, I decided to take on the biggest issue of all for Yale’s men: the 268-year-old parietal rules that forbade women staying overnight in a dorm room. I was dating a woman at a local college, so for me, it was as much a personal as a community issue.
The
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
there is an accelerating trend.” It is “faster to reach peak popularity,” and then there is “a faster drop again.”