@pluralistic's latest piece on AI psychosis contains the sentence
"the internet makes it easier for people with sparsely distributed traits to locate one another, which is why the internet era is characterized by the coherence of people with formerly fringe characteristics into organized blocs."
That strikes me as generically accurate - is there a name for this phenomenon?
I really, really wish I had come across this article on the relationship of Google and libraries from 2009 before today https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2477/2279
17 years after its publication, it makes me ask - if the distinctions it draws (between the goals of libraries vs the goals of Google, and the way both view "information" differently) are accurate (I think they still hold), how well have libraries' strategies worked out, and is that fair to ask, or was it always a doomed-to-fail rearguard action?
Alberta school divisions complying with a provincial order have removed dozens of graphic novels from their shelves, from illustrated versions of literary classics to coming-of-age memoirs and dramatic retellings of mythology, access to information request results show.
If you want a good historically accurate explanation of why there has been constant wars in the Middle East since the mid 20th
Century (shocking answer - colonial powers thirst for oil and the inept ways they carved up the area territorially) this video does a great job of explaining (I *think* it will load without a facebook login)
Scott Leslie
The Tyee