I am trying to talk less about social media drama on here, but I will say it is sort of my personal hell to have spent roughly two decades thinking deeply about decentralized social media, content moderation policy, managing bad-faith actors, systematic online abuse, and the role of journalists in the architecture of generative online platforms, and see a broad public discussion going on where the loudest voices are all approaching this with “I don’t know much, but here’s my first thought!”
@anildash A tonic for you might be a new podcast https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/i-have-a-new-podcast It’s refreshing to hear how bad ideas were introduced into the discourse through popular books that were bad to begin with.
I Have A New Podcast!

It's about the most harmful airport books of the last 50 years

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