How do you divorce pluralism from the argumentative? At what point is the vehement parsed from the raucous? What are the properties inherent in pluralism, that we don't talk about?

I'm not aware of a good model for social media that addresses the issues of algorithmic social feeds without a tendency towards insular groupthinking. Maybe that's not in the cards.

Point me in the right direction if i'm wrong.

The purity spiraling on Bluesky is obnoxious. I generally hate social media. The verdict’s still out on Bluesky though for me. ‘Is there a free exchange of ideas’, this is a big indicator i’m paying attention to.

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Shutup with your wankster-hipster "I'm so fringe i'll only criticize the narrowest sub-set of nothingness that isn't in complete alignment with me"

Linkedin feels like where linkedin’s go to die-

Respectfully, I think it’s a fair point that civic ignorance does leads to our current state in the US. If a large portion of the population wasn’t so ignorant on civic matters, political, policy, & legal outcomes would likely be better. There is a relation to what’s permissible and what happens.

How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks — The Verge When armies invade, hurricanes form, or governments fall, a Wikipedia editor will typically update the relevant articles seconds after the news breaks. So quick are editors to change “is” to “was” in ...

Facts : ‘a stubborn common ground of shared reality, a basic pre-condition of human life’

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The art of social change-making involves bringing people with you, NOT hunting out those who disagree with you.
#purity_tests_areLAME

Emotions run deeper than reason | Mark Lilla Humans are emotional creatures before they are rational ones. So, in order to get people to appreciate a rational argument, we must engage their emotions first.

When you’ve built your entire worldview on a house of cards, accepting even one piece of new information can mean challenging your entire identity.

Great article. Have been chewing on someone of Lilla’s ideas for a while now

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a lot of bad faith in this comment section :/

There's a quote on the I-5 Bridge, and it encapsulates the power of building things that last, matter, and are a reflection of our values.

There's tremendous pride, culture, and heritage in the trades in Southwest Washington – and it's reflected in the built environment around us.

But here's the mind-bender: Broccoli isn't quite 3D! 🤯 It has a "fractional" dimension – somewhere between 2D and 3D. This means it’s more complex than a flat surface, but doesn’t completely fill up space like a solid object.

If you’re a team player pointing out how other team players behavior is aggrievous—

And you find yourself generating incessant discussions about those transgressions rather than the actual inciting incident—

You might be in a purity spiral.
Stop being annoying.
Don’t contribute to the echo chamber

Post a pic you took with no context, to bring some zen to the timeline

There’s definitely something to that logic. Americans have become desensitised to politics, outrage, news, etc,. Might as well save appeals to their attention, for a time when they’re less desensitised.

Current weather reminds me of my favorite Kanye song:

No more salt in N.Y.
Please, baby, no more salt in N.Y., uh

😆😢

This is hilarious

If you don’t feel up to something, consider what the lowest possible threshold is for a dry run.

Don’t feel like going to the gym? Maybe just drive to the gym, or prep your exercise gear. Etc,.

Soft disagree. Being right is easy, but expressing intellect with honesty and nuance is a higher skill.

In some instances, shutting down the unreflective might actually be the move— but not always, and certainly not as a rule of thumb.

Sounds cool

Scrolling through the feed, there’s something that continues to annoy me about micro platforms like bsky, x, etc:

There is an implicit assumption- that being right matters.

Being right does NOT matter, no matter how concise, clever, and apt your point is.

Have folks considered trying being wrong?

Cozy living room with a Christmas tree glowing softly in the corner and wall art on the wall. On the TV screen, Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey sits hunched over at Martini's bar, next to his gaurdian angel, Clarence Odbody, played by Henry Travers. George whispers “Hey, I don’t think you should be talking like that here." This iconic scene from It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) highlights George’s disbelief and discomfort as he begins to realize Clarence's unusual nature.

There’s something very American about It’s a Wonderful Life (1946). I think it has to do with how George Bailey’s morality, expectations of the world, and estimation of self-worth are all tied together.

His outlook before jumping off the bridge feels akin to the neoliberal American, end of 2024.

Karl and the Mooninites from “Aqua Teen Hunger Force”

Sorry but when I hear “mysterious drone spotted in New Jersey” this is all I can picture

Ha!

I would argue those actors are A) conservative media players, and B) those who’ve popularised populist sentiment into the larger culture.

Hard to imagine a pathway out, less there’s a bottom up shift in paradigms.

The idea is that the open source software and decentralised protocol of Bsky returns a transparency & autonomy
not offered by other social media platforms.

Authorities on information such as organisations, institutions, agencies, public figures, some media, all of which traditionally viewed as trust worthy and apolitical. Recent years have lead to conservative consumers in particular trusting less and less authorities outside their approved apparatus.