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C. Henry
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political scientist @ University of Zürich platforms, political violence, social media, computing research & writing: henryhenryhenry.com sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia
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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 11h
solid piece from Garbage Day. in the aftermath of the 2010s - which in retrospect now look like a golden age of social media - it's clear that the priorities of platform companies shifted to 1a) ensure mass politics can never again emerge on platforms & 1b) keep the content pipe open for AI training
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 1d
The Trump admin is fully powered by the attention economy. A universe of dumbasess talking to other dumbasess, built on the assumption our tastes have grown so rotten and atrophied that we can't even remember a world where we weren't inundated by worthless slop.
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Sacha Altay @sachaltay.bsky.social · 10h
Super cool data on what people saw on their phone during the 2024 US elections:

"On an average day, the median individual saw the terms ‘Donald Trump’, ‘Joe Biden’, and ‘Kamala Harris’ on their phone for only 3 seconds."

www.guyaridor.net/files/digita...
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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 11h
every product release and UX change (the things that materially shape social graphs and discourse) over the past 5 years seems directed towards these two priorities, even to the detriment of overall user engagement
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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 11h
solid piece from Garbage Day. in the aftermath of the 2010s - which in retrospect now look like a golden age of social media - it's clear that the priorities of platform companies shifted to 1a) ensure mass politics can never again emerge on platforms & 1b) keep the content pipe open for AI training
ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 1d
The Trump admin is fully powered by the attention economy. A universe of dumbasess talking to other dumbasess, built on the assumption our tastes have grown so rotten and atrophied that we can't even remember a world where we weren't inundated by worthless slop.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-...
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