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Status Items Output None Questions None Claims None Highlights Done See section below
Highlights
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moderate your exposure to the bullshit. Your retweet or reskeet or repost is not going to save democracy. Your hot take on some idiot’s confirmation hearing is, at most, freaking out your friends.
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Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people’s attention, often by evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger.
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the competence of critical ignoring — choosing what to ignore and where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities.
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self-nudging, in which one ignores temptations by removing them from one’s digital environments; lateral reading, in which one vets information by leaving the source and verifying its credibility elsewhere online; and the do-not-feed-the-trolls heuristic, which advises one to not reward malicious actors with attention.
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“EVERYONE WANTS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO HELP MOM DO THE DISHES.” We all laughed. But then he went on to say this to my students: “Statistically, it’s highly unlikely that any of you will ever have the opportunity to run into a burning orphanage and rescue an infant. But, in the smallest gesture of kindness — a warm smile, holding the door for the person behind you, shoveling the driveway of the elderly person next door — you have committed an act of immeasurable profundity, because to each of us, our life is our universe.”
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highlighting the creativity of humanity, telling the truth about what’s going on in the world, sharing dumb stuff that makes us laugh
✏️ I can’t think of a worthier and better description of things to share. 🔗 View Highlight