"How algorithmic feeds conflate identity with diagnosis"

>"She seems to find fault with everything I do."

"In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein famously demonstrated the power of world-altering crises like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina to “shock” people into a kind of stupor that prevented them from pushing back against the “godlike” power of _...Read More_

>"It's been a big week and you feel exhausted, and suddenly you find yourself crying at a nice nappy commercial. Or maybe you are struck _...Read More_

The New York Times: How to Figure Out if You Can Actually Afford That New Home.

"This is interesting and a thing folks wanted since instagram switched to algorithmic feed"

"Both sides are a little bit right. In the appropriate contexts, masking your true self can be healthy and freeing."

"During the pandemic, the term “doomscrolling” entered the mainstream lexicon to describe an action that has become familiar to many: endlessly scrolling through _...Read More_

“Who are we when scrolling through a feed? Where is it taking us? What sort of internal division is it sowing? _...Read More_

This article has nothing to do with this community.

"The music I’ve salvaged from earlier times is now part of my collection on Spotify, which I’ve been using since it launched in the United States, _...Read More_

I have not left social media altogether, but I fantasise about it, if only for the feeling of leaving. Deleting Instagram, for example, felt like diving off a cliff into a deep, calm lake. There wasn’t really a reason to do it – no one I _...Read More_

Are we free? Are you, me and everyone else in the democratic West, the supposedly “free world”, as free as anyone is ever going to be? And how do we even measure how free a society is in the first place?