How Big Tech Mined Our Attention and Broke Our Politics

5 larodi 3 5/19/2025, 8:32:13 PM nytimes.com ↗

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larodi · 8h ago
“Superbloom,” by Nicholas Carr, and “The Sirens’ Call,” by the MSNBC host Chris Hayes, argue that we are ill equipped to handle the infinite scroll of the information age.
PaulHoule · 8h ago
Would like to see the NYC own up to being a major player as opposed to just being blown around. (E.g. “free speech” might really be better off not behind the paywall if it really is so important)

In 2016 it would be have been tempting to blame Trump on TV, to see him as the fulfillment of Boorstein’s prophecy in The Image. People did blame Cambridge Analytica for that and in fact I nuked most of my socials in Dec 2016 but things have gone further in the 8 years since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image:_A_Guide_to_Pseudo-e...