Psychological Bulletin documents weakened inhibitory control in nearly one hundred thousand young people
Before even getting out of bed, a large share of youth checks the phone…
PLATFORMS AND ALGORITHMS
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PLATFORMS AND ALGORITHMS
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The first stone is no longer thrown by the crowd, it is thrown by the algorithm that pays for it, a brief economic history of the scapegoat
The mechanism is ancient, and its effectiveness has never depended on truth. A community…
The Measured Gesture, the Alienated Body. Wage Discipline and the Automation of Punishment on Global Platforms
In February 2026, April Watson hit her head in an Amazon warehouse in the…
Your capacity to not be alone was the first natural resource Silicon Valley learned to extract
Nearly one in four people aged over fifteen reports feeling quite or very lonely,…
Learning Every Day as an Act of Resistance in a System That Doesn’t Need You to Be Stupid, Just Distracted
There is a distinction the system would rather we not make. Between knowing and…
The Mammals That Stopped Reproducing So the App Could Keep Running
A thirty-year-old man, in a recent debate, said something his contemporaries rarely say out…
In 1886, Tolstoy Described a Man Who Did Everything Right and Never Really Lived. Today That Man Has a Hundred Million Followers
There are books that age and books that wait. The Death of Ivan Ilyich,…