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The Banality of Online Recommendation Culture (New Yorker)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 10/31/2024 - 15:02Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis? (New Yorker)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 06:24As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out home pages (New Yorker)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 05/02/2024 - 05:20Elon Musk's Shadow Rule
Elon Musk, became involved in the war in Ukraine soon after Russia invaded, in February 2022. Along with conventional assaults, the Kremlin was conducting cyberattacks against Ukraine’s digital infrastructure. Ukrainian officials and a loose coalition of expatriates in the tech sector, brainstorming in group chats on WhatsApp and Signal, found a potential solution: SpaceX, which manufactures a line of mobile Internet terminals called Starlink. The tripod-mounted dishes, each about the size of a computer display connect with a network of satellites.