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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“If teenagers already understand how social media algorithms work, what would actually change if they had real control over them?”
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🎧 If the towers fell in real time on live television, why is a generation now being taught a softer script than the one the hijackers wrote themselves?... - onHow do I measure whether an epistemic intervention improved anything without the metric quietly collapsing back into engagement?by
An “Epistemic intervention”. What is that? Like a grieving the things we can’t change? “The metric quietly collapsing into engagement”… also mysterious and unclear to me. It evokes quantum entanglement. Or something.... - Aaron87656...
I think we’re all looking out for a perfect process with maximum effort/ reward yield. The sphere we’re looking to build in is a directed desire ( by research ) for a specific person or candidate ; then, for them to bring our intentions to bureaucracy.... - Aaron87656...
Blank Journalism Meets Social Studies
A muddled suggestion. I’m being introspective-ish. From a personal snapshot for personal perspective. I don’t know if practical writing and insight has self-reflective properties. Are we the audience of our own personas/ or even an experienced group culture?... - WWRS...
WOW! As I read so many opinions on today's political goings-on, I am embarrassed, as a National Merit teacher, by how little today's Americans know about American history, world history, American government, and political science.... I agree, the narratives we feed ourselves via the media, including social media, overrepresent the negative and under-represent all the wonderfulness.... The transformation of marginalized people—specifically LGBTQ+ individuals, feminists, and racial minorities—from human communities into abstract "political ideologies" and "cultural issues" was a deliberate, highly orchestrated strategy....