Doordenkertje: By optimizing for what it defines as “relevance,” Facebook puts its thumb on the scale in favor of a certain kind of political communication, the kind that focuses on engaging with people who are already on your side. Polarization, in other words, is part of the business model.

Interessant experiment met (voor mij) enkele verrassende bevindingen. But after just two weeks, the majority began to think that their cell phones were in fact limiting their relationships with other people, compromising their own lives, and somehow cutting them off from the “real” world.

Deze quote van Caitlin Giddings is pijnlijk herkenbaar: Getting paid to do what I loved made me realize that I needed to find something new to love. Ik maakte ook al enkele keren van mijn hobby mijn beroep. En da’s eigenlijk al elke keer pijnlijk en eindig geweest. Nu zit ik voor de eerste keer […]

Geweldige TED Talk van Eli Pariser, de man die zoveel jaar geleden het visionaire “The Filter Bubble” schreef:

Douglas Rushkoff, die hier ook al enkele keren voorbij kwam, stelt zijn nieuwe boek voor in deze uitstekende podcast. Een boek dat ik onmiddellijk kocht.

Interessante omschrijving van een gekend concept: When you start arguing with someone over a Scissor statement, Alexander’s narrator explains, “at first you just think they’re an imbecile. Then they call you an imbecile, and you want to defend yourself. … You notice all the little ways they’re lying to you and themselves and their audience […]

Zotjes: The idea of making it all free fascinates me. My mother grew up in the Soviet Union … So I’m very conscious of what, what it can mean to make knowledge free, to make information free.