Attention equals money — that this is a literal attention economy. People — it would be silly to think that these things don’t matter, because — if it is your industry — obviously if you don’t get any attention, you won’t be in business.
Attention equals money — this is a literal attention economy – Teaser News [ https://teaser.news.blog/2026/05/17/attention-equals-money-this-is-a-literal-attention-economy ]
[… but] there’s all of this context to explain it — and so hopefully it’s a book that gives some compassion to that [viewspective?]
“What the Internet Did to Girls – Freya India” (“Walk-Ins Welcome #388“) [ https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-388 ], ca. 2:12 – 2:48
See also my current ongoing series (roughly about the “business plan” of “social media”):
What ?!?
“Does Polymarket Engineer the Future?” [ https://www.phetasy.com/p/dumpster-fire-279 ] @ ca. 1:45 – 2:00
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Shona Harding raises many interesting points about something she refers to as “social media” (but she doesn’t really clarify what is / isn’t social media) — cf. https://contextual.news.blog/2020/04/22/introduction-to-rational-media-content-vs-container
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They had three reasons, basically [why the founders wanted to have guns and hold militias]: One was to kill indians (because they were expanding over the west — they were invading what they called vacant lands, indian country — it was one of the main reasons for the Revolution … so you needed to kill the indians, later you would need militias to do it); You had to control the slaves (it was a slave society — almost all of the founders were slave owners, there were slave rebellions all over the Carribean, they were very frightening, so you needed guns); the third was “The British are Coming”
Noam Chomsky, Useful Idiots podcast, 19 March 2020 [1:13:56 – 1:19:30]
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