My concern is what should be a stopgap solution for problems that need a long term whole society approach ends up being the only serious attention paid to the issue. A band-aid on a festering sore.
Yup.
Eliot Higgins
There is an ironic twist to this story: Haidt's influence on public attention and opinion formation illustrates almost perfectly one of the biggest real problems of the attention economy.
Seems to be an important ruling, especially in light of Google's new ideas about 'search'.
Just to be clear, social media ‘bans’, age verification, ‘device-level’ control over sexual images etc. all *increase* the power of the tech giants and the tech bros. They hand over enforcement and monitoring to the tech giants. They all give more data and more control to the tech giants.
This is magnificently cool and valuable work by Cara Ocobock. Why we should seriously consider that pregnancy physiology provides the original human endurance adaptations. (Then, later, bipedalism plus endurance physiology allowed endurance running.)
