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Tilted Playing Field

I am going to be increasingly *ignoring* various issues, campaigns & provocations on Twitter. If you are determined to screenshot the fact that I blocked you, I’m now much more happy to accommodate. We mere mortals with flaws have a right to be protected from our betters here. I tried civility. I tried engagement. But this platform is engineered to allow all sorts of problems. One of them is anonymous networks of accounts/bots engaging named humans. Another is privacy based attacks. A … [Read more...] about Tilted Playing Field

Open and Decentralized

Do not ignore this quoted tweet. There are layers and layers with this. I think @jack is likely moves ahead here. Don’t let your frustrations with current Twitter and it’s Terms of Service or Trust & Safety issues blind you to what is likely to be the fate of social media. Do you want to blow your own mind? Ok. What if the future of social media is CEOs who don’t want responsibilities that no one can possibly shoulder because the challenges are impossible? What if the CEOs lock … [Read more...] about Open and Decentralized

The Algorithms that Direct our Attention

I will be coming back to this old tweet repeatedly. A plan to reassert narrative control before 2020 was evident immediately after Trump’s win shocked our institutional elite. “Fake news” was it’s placeholder buying time to figure out how to end rivals to “authoritative sources.” It would appear we are being psychologically prepared for a change in the algorithms that direct our attention.Eric Weinstein - Nov 28, 2016 "Demonetization" on YouTube, the "fake news" narrative on MSM, & … [Read more...] about The Algorithms that Direct our Attention

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