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@SinDexBand trumpet player, conversation designer, liberal gadfly
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Post a pic of when your pet was little
Photo of a tiny cockapoo puppy being held up to the camera
March 1, 2025 at 5:38 AM
aelman.bsky.social
This is a *really* important point for us to keep in mind as citizens. We can’t beat ourselves up for having our attention grabbed by the prurient, but we have to recognize it! @chrislhayes.bsky.social
“Attention is not a moral faculty. Without concerted effort, habit, and training, what we are drawn to focus on and what we believe to be important and worthy bear no intrinsic relation to each other. They may sometimes overlap by happy accident, but they are more often than not as estranged as id and superego. We have a robust vocabulary to describe the category of things we find gripping but morally dubious: “titillating,” “lurid,” “prurient.” And it is that very category that occupies an enormous amount of the attention economy at any given moment. The lurid and titillating are what made up nearly all of Benjamin Day’s penny press, what tend to drive the evening news, and what we now call clickbait and used to be called “tabloid.”” — The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes https://a.co/b3OM6zo
February 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
aelman.bsky.social
…but some hope?
“Many of those who have attempted to follow his model, what we might call the P. T. Barnum/ shock jock mode of politics, have had limited success or outright failures. In 2022, a bunch of Trump-style attention hounds, from Blake Masters to Kari Lake to Doug Mastriano to Herschel Walker, managed to dominate the attentional space of their races, saying and doing controversial things, grabbing headlines, but in so doing ended up on the wrong side of the Trump attention/ persuasion trade.[ 35] They paid for that attention in the cost of alienating enough voters to lose winnable races.” — The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes https://a.co/7E1Ycvu
February 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
aelman.bsky.social
Another great point from this book
Being willing to court negative attention at the cost of persuasion is really Donald Trump’s one simple trick for hacking attention-age public discourse. There was a deep logic to this approach underneath its surface chaos. Trump intuited that if he drew attention to certain topics, even if he did it in an alienating way, the benefits of raising the salience of issues where he and the Republican Party held a polling advantage would outweigh the costs. - Chris Hayes, “The Siren’s Call”
February 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
aelman.bsky.social
This is a fantastic book and this in particular is a key insight.
“They waste our time for their benefit. When you understand it like that, spam isn’t a side problem or trivial problem; it is the problem of our time. Spam is all the things we don’t want to pay attention to that want our attention. Spam arises from the tension between the two foundational facts of the attention age: information is infinite, attention is finite. Or in more economic terms, the marginal cost of soliciting attention approaches zero, while the cost to us personally of having our attention taken rises as the value of attention as a resource rises. It costs the spammer nothing to distract us. It costs a lot to be distracted.” — The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes https://a.co/99UfHNh
February 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
aelman.bsky.social
Proud of my kiddo for starting a basketball pep band at his school just because he loves to play!
January 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
aelman.bsky.social
Sent to my senators and congressman via @resist.bot :
I am writing today to express my dismay and horror at many of the actions taken by President Trump in his first two days back in office. Many of the actions he took were expected - pulling out of the Paris agreement, cancelling state EPA waivers that allowed our state to enforce a shift towards EVs, and even pardoning many of those who participated in the January 6 insurrection. I was disappointed but not surprised by those actions. However, several of his actions have shocked me. In no particular order: He pardoned not only those who invaded the Capitol on 1/6/21, but several people who beat police officers. He pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road dark web site that created a market for drug trafficking and assassinations. He effectively erased the concept of transgender people from federal policy. And he abruptly cancelled the appointments of hundreds of people who were simply trying to request asylum in our country. I know you agree with me that this is unacceptable, and I hope that you will find ways to hold President Trump accountable for his actions in the coming years. I know that this will be difficult to do from the minority position in Congress, but I also know that you will do everything you can. Thank you for continuing to represent our shared values in Congress.
January 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
aelman.bsky.social
Hey Apple Intelligence it’s the color not the bird (except when it’s the bird not the color)
Apple Intelligence summary of ESPN notifications showing “Cardinals lead Cardinals” referring to Stanford vs Louisville
November 16, 2024 at 10:43 PM
aelman.bsky.social
Another example from the Mastodon side from this post: https://kolektiva.social/@blackflower/110554861028194309

I can see the image and the beginning of the post but there’s no way to get to the full post. And the link only copies the link to the image.
June 16, 2023 at 6:44 PM
aelman.bsky.social
Here’s another example - I get the photo but not the comment.

https://bsky.app/profile/sadvil.bsky.social/post/3jycddd6fv525
June 16, 2023 at 5:29 PM
aelman.bsky.social
Hey @flipboard.com - I’d love to use Flipboard as a primary Bluesky (and Mastodon) client, but when I try I get things like this image (here’s the post: https://bsky.app/profile/parkermolloy.com/post/3jy5gwruzls2j ) is improving this display on your roadmap? Thanks!
June 14, 2023 at 6:49 PM