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The End of News — The Atlantic
Over the course of the ten-hour flight to Lima, Elliot patiently explains to Mark all the ways that Facebook basically handed the election to Donald Trump. It’s pretty fucking convincing and pretty fucking concerning. Facebook embedded staff in Trump’s campaign team in San Antonio for months, alongside Trump campaign programmers, ad copywriters, me
... See moreSarah Wynn-Williams • Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
You can see this mindset has infected everything:
- We join Twitter for the love of conversation—come out obsessed with likes.
- We pursue research for discovery—then get trapp
Becoming unLLMable
Nathan Baschez • Substack’s Ideology
The platforms themselves were no longer in the business of delivering people to one another; they were in the business of delivering people to marketers. Humans were no longer the customers of social media. We were the product.
Douglas Rushkoff • Team Human
was like staring at a thousand people who were all reading newspapers that were held upside down.
Robert Draper • Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind
Facebook doesn’t release to the public—the company’s scientists reached a definite conclusion. They wrote: “Our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness,”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
caught myself contributing dumbly like this, to my dismay. I went back and checked posts from 2009 and 2010. I had written in complete sentences, arguments, with multiple paragraphs. The shift was obvious and drastic. Diversity, nuance, and ambiguity had declined. If passions were fervent and I disagreed with the chorus of “yeahs” or “ughs,” the cr
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