Tea Leaf Writer
@tealeafwriter.bsky.social
Writer and creative thinker working in marketing/comms. Of many paths and varied interests. Keeping the Renaissance humanist ideal alive in an age of over-specialization and mass misincentivization.
Was interested to take a look what this was about, but all I got was a paywall and a bunch of ads.
October 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Was interested to take a look what this was about, but all I got was a paywall and a bunch of ads.
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Algos are designed with 1 goal: keeping users longer and having them engaging, and posts that piss people off tend to get the most engagement, so the algo pushes that crap more and more. It's a horrible cycle but company CEOs to their shareholders are all 👍 cos the engagement numbers are "good" 😩😩
September 26, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Algos are designed with 1 goal: keeping users longer and having them engaging, and posts that piss people off tend to get the most engagement, so the algo pushes that crap more and more. It's a horrible cycle but company CEOs to their shareholders are all 👍 cos the engagement numbers are "good" 😩😩
Social media algorithms have damaged society substantially.
September 27, 2024 at 5:58 AM
Social media algorithms have damaged society substantially.
Was told to look at this speech, but not seeing a clear parallel in the text: hrlibrary.umn.edu/education/th...
Thucydides: Pericles' Funeral Oration
hrlibrary.umn.edu
September 24, 2024 at 4:32 AM
Was told to look at this speech, but not seeing a clear parallel in the text: hrlibrary.umn.edu/education/th...