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Shiri's Margin Attractor
How media controversy maximization drives election differential to the margins
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January 2024

The Simple End to the Sensemaking Crisis
Zuck could just ban all news.
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January 2023

Quillette New Orleans Social - After Action Report
And thoughts on emergent media business models
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November 2022

HWFO on Ken LaCorte Big Pod
A light happy podcast full of low grade media bashing for a quiet Thursday
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February 2022

I Offer You Joe Rogan’s Head on a Pike
Let’s cut a deal
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January 2022

Aural Hypertext and the Memory of Man
Or, "That Time I Got Sampled on Youtube"
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December 2021

A Case Study of Memetic Compression Rates
Goofy images as idea data compression
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November 2021

Rittenhouse as a Litmus for Adult Disagreement
Wherein we analyze a meme, a lie, a reaction, a riot, and a couple dead people, and discern the true enemy.
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September 2021

Can Fortnite Rescue Humanity from the Attention Economy War?
…by winning it?
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May 2021

The Social Media Catastrophe
Attention is a fixed resource and we are in a "Tragedy of the Commons" situation with modern media.
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Facebook is Shiri's Scissor
Human social media infrastructure necessarily creates a hate machine.
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March 2021

The Long Problem
I knew his dad. Everything is wrong.
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