I got a separate pair of blue-light blocking lenses with a uniform slight magnification just for computer use because using progressives to look at a wide-screen monitor is abysmal.

A key part of owning up to and pivoting from the way that the anti-misinformation project failed to address the problems at hand is engaging in creative re-framing of how we conceptualize what those problems are.

I also think the fragmenting of the media ecosystem means it's a lot easier to start from your conclusions and then build your bespoke reality media ecosystem backwards, which makes it feel like we are not getting information out there when, in reality, it's that there's too much information.

I also think, despite all of their seeming efforts, it is not really possible to completely destroy people’s ability to access and know true things. Make-believe can’t erase the truth or stop people from seeking and finding facts. You can get a lot of people to go along with a make-believe though.

We've lost the mechanism that says "this is the most important thing you should know today." Even news alerts and homepages — which should be that — are undermining that responsibility by putting out too much volume to compete for attention.

Yes exactly this. The media ecosystem are no longer acting as effective waypoints to help people orient themselves toward the salience and sense-making about available information in a way that we would expect it to (and which waypointing doesn’t really exist for online resources at all)

Yeah, absolutely. The media could be doing everything right and their coverage might still diverge from peoples’ expected emphasis of a topic due to how affectively important it feels to the viewer when they turn on the news and don’t hear about that topic right that instant.

In this perspective, we don’t have an information crisis as much as the media has an anti-democratic storytelling crisis.

I do think we have a problem where the stories that the media tells *about* widely available factual information construct new meanings that legitimate fascist counter-realities. But that is a very different problem than most people no longer being able to identify and access factual information.

There are probably a number of different subjective gaps that people encounter and subsequently describe as the info ecosystem being broken. One of them, for example, is a sense that the feeling tone, pitch, and amplitude of coverage by media about a subject does not comport to their own attitudes.

I could be convinced this also extends to (some) extremist radicalization

If you look past the obvious social media performance of the post, I think “good at math” is actually code for “good at spending other people’s money” and we should just critique that directly

Once again telling myself that I need to shank my imposter syndrome