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“Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people’s attention, often by evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger. Resisting certain types of information and actors online requires people to adopt new mental habits that help them avoid being tempted by attention-grabbing and potentially harmful content. Digital information literacy must include the competence of critical ignoring—choosing what to ignore and where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities.” Paper here.
The Feud: “In February this year, The Very Reverend Professor Martyn Percy left Christ Church, Oxford, as its Dean with a £1.25 million settlement. But big questions remain.”
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of FTX, lost 94% of his net worth in a single day.
Freddie deBoer: “What I would like to say today to those that hate both online ads and paywalls is this: pick one.”
