Social Media

A review of Jonathan Haidts "The Anxious Generation"

Apr 28

Cultural Memory in the Digital

Good Night, Jan Assmann.

Feb 22

Instagram and Threads making Politics opt-in is fine

The golden rule of Pubs comes for Socmed.

Feb 12

Squaring the Circle.

Substackers against Nazis, reloaded.

Jan 11

Understanding the OpenAI-Chaos

Plus: Unviral Bin Laden.

Nov 20, 2023

Social Media are Drugs.

And Desinformation is the hit.

Oct 26, 2023

On Facebooks polarization-studies

Facebooks polarization-papers are no reason to downplay the political influence of Social Media

Jul 31, 2023

AI-Actors from beyond the grave

Plus: The Rise and Fall of Google Reader / Reality Diffusion / Reality check for AI-doomerism

Jul 26, 2023

Don't expect me to cry, for all the reasons you had to die.

Jul 25, 2023

Yes Yes Yum Yum No Spicy

Jul 16, 2023

A realist assessment of the AI-bullshit factory

Plus: Ban smartphones in schools / The AI-Dilemma / Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent in the 21st Century

Jun 29, 2023

The Hyperbole Machine

I scream, you scream, we all scream because of side effects of online disinhibition.

Jun 14, 2023

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