AI is a mess but millions of us have already delegated our thinking to the team captain of the day on social platforms, so.

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If the purpose of a system is what it does then the purpose of intellectual social media is to reduce *ideally* thoughtful or even generous arguments into colorwars-coded slapfights that rest on the certainty that spectators lack the energy to click through to—let alone read—absolutely anything

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NEW from me: Latino voters in Texas' Rio Grande Valley went big for Trump in 2024. I drove around the valley asking voters about life + midterms. “Screwed up." "I’m finished" with Trump. “Usually I would be Republican, but now I’m changing all the way around." www.huffpost.com/entry/latino...

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why did "notifications" become unnecessarily complicated?

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please remember this is also a consequence of citizens united when we allow corporations and billionaires to give unlimited sums to dark money PACs, campaigning has to be 75% fundraising to even compete on the same playing field

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