The Atlantic: The Age of Social Media Is Ending.

"The viral image-generation app is good, absurd fun. It’s also giving the world an education in how artificial intelligence may warp reality."

As I read this prehistory of DAO it is profound how much embodiment will change what this space can eventually achieve. Earth Regenerators is a DAO of physical human beings in a web of prosocial relationships. We already are functioning _...Read More_

"Social media platforms are not only creating echo chambers, propagating falsehoods, and facilitating the circulation of extremist ideas. Previous media innovations, dating back at least to the printing press, did that, too, but none of _...Read More_

>"Students from underrepresented communities are often given the advice to “network for better opportunities.” However, the unfortunate reality is that white, more privileged groups continue to control access to the majority of jobs and _...Read More_

"Almost every social-media platform offers its users an option to privatize their account—a way for people to control who engages with their content, often to avoid the judgment, schadenfreude, bullying, and snark that are ubiquitous _...Read More_

"What’s the Deal With Synesthesia TikTok?"

"By letting third parties build moderation and safety tools, social media platforms could limit harassment — and give users more agency in how they engage."

"A growing number of subcultures, digital communities and guilds have turned their back on ad-supported social media and migrated their social and cultural activities to semi-private digital _...Read More_

This project entails not only intervening at the level of social media but also trying to understand the ways in which information is part of everyday life

Will Knight is a senior writer for WIRED, covering artificial intelligence. He was previously a senior editor at MIT Technology Review, where he wrote about hfundamental advances in AI and China’s AI boom. Before that, he was an editor and _...Read More_

"We may never leave social media completely. But we will control which aspects of our identities we share, and with whom"

This is Fine: Optimism & Emergency in the P2P Network by Cade Diehm “The last fifteen years has seen a surge of interest in decentralised technology. From well-funded blockchain projects like IPFS to the emergence of large scale _...Read More_