CNN: Biden struggles to refocus Americans' attention on his efforts to help family budgets as inflation soars. >"President Joe Biden had hoped that his _...Read More_

>"Backers of the Big Lie could be running polling places across Pennsylvania in 2024."

CNN: CNN Poll: Majority of Americans say Biden isn't paying attention to nation's most important issues. >"One year out from the 2022 midterm elections, 58% _...Read More_

>"As international attention subsides, the group is reverting to its old tactics."

A good read on “ampliganda.” “A giant web of interconnected users, each with an agenda, shouting at one another to pay attention. It’s not disinformation. Our politics is awash in ampliganda, the propaganda of the modern age.”

Nothing we didn't already know but it's good to see a light being shined on it. "Haugen claims the root of the problem is the algorithims rolled out in 2018 that govern what you see on the platform. According to her they are meant to _...Read More_

As the will to deepen my attention for chess was dying, a part of myself was dying, too

Autism spectrum disorder is inseparable from who I am. I wish only that it hadn’t taken so long to find out.

Great reminder and reference by the author [news.utexas.edu/2019/04/04/we-are-what-we-consume-do-you-have-a-balanced-social-media-diet](http://news.utexas.edu/2019/04/04/we-are-what-we-consume-do-you-have-a-balanced-social-media-diet)

Social media as arms dealer

Terrifying, heartbreaking & exhilarating.

"How the fantasies of the TV era created the disaster of social media" "Social media was built on TV culture’s fantasy that ever-greater “connectivity” would perfect democracy and bring harmony. This fantasy is now dashed to pieces. But _...Read More_

It's been widely reported that YouTube has an algorithm problem. This explainer goes deeper, mapping the bot battleground that makes effective countermeasures so elusive