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Social media marketing
fromComputerworld
12 hours ago

Connecting the dots on the 'attachment economy'

Digital platforms optimize to capture scarce human attention, driving addictive attention-grabbing content and prompting AI-driven features to increase user engagement and attachment.
US politics
fromwww.theatlantic.com
2 months ago

America's Slide Toward Simulated Democracy

Democracies require verifiable truth, meaningful public deliberation, and real accountability; when these collapse, the public sphere becomes a simulated democracy.
fromMedium
3 months ago

Too Different to Belong, Too Ordinary to Stand Out

The online world amplifies a deep human paradox: we want to fit in and stand out at the same time. Algorithms reward polish, not practice. Visibility, not depth. The antidote is in reclaiming the messy middle where originality is formed, and letting technology be collaborators, not replacements. I keep circling a question that psychology hasn't yet neatly answered: why does the online world make us feel both too different to belong and too ordinary to matter? Every one of use
Digital life
New York City
fromStreetsblog
4 months ago

Zohran Mamdani On E-Bike Safety: Regulate App Algorithms, Not Workers - Streetsblog New York City

Zohran Mamdani supports regulating delivery-app algorithms to stop incentives that push riders toward unsafe behavior and to protect delivery workers and pedestrians.
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