A former senior Bush administration official (writing under a pseudonym) attempts to survey the social and political side-effects of algorithmic polarization an

A former senior Bush administration official (writing under a pseudonym) attempts to survey the social and political side-effects of algorithmic polarization and the tech business cycle. Arrives at a similar call for deliberate moderation and communities of human-scale judgment as have familiar observers like Jon Haidt, Arthur C Brooks, and the “small web” crowd. Probably nothing new to most of the folks here, but I appreciated the broad view of the trenches we labor in from the perspective of a political person. > Every platform eventually follows the same arc: nobility gives way to monetization, and monetization gives way to enshittification. But the true cost of enshittification isn’t just a worse internet experience. It’s a worse society.