A couple of things

A couple of videos that caught my interest today. First off, John Stewart's interview with Jacinda Ardern was a useful reminder that human beings do sometimes achieve high office, and that it would probably be a good thing if it happened more often.

And this second one I actually listened to here, but I'm linking to the video because there are a couple of diagrams reference that people my find useful. This is Cal Newport on the case for quitting social media and his take is REALLY good. (TL:DR - everything that's wrong is a feature, not a bug, and it therefore can't and won't be be fixed). I'm glad he included Bluesky here, because there is a temptation to think that federated systems aren't as bad as Facebook and Twitter, but they actually do exactly the same damage, because it's not the companies or the profit motive that makes these things dangerous, it's the system itslef. Anyway, REALLY worth a watch/listen. (It's Deep Questions Episode 371, if you'd just like to search for it.)