Now & Then & Etc

My place to narrate happenings and thoughts now, or to post from my writing archives experiences then. By nature this site’s writing is rough and exploratory.

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Category: Social Media

  • Social Media Algorithms—We train them to feed us the extremes.

    On the 9 Mar. 2026 PBS ‘Settle In’ video podcast, titled “Hany Farid and Amna Nawaz discuss spotting manipulated images,” interviewer Nawaz talks with “pioneering digital forensic expert Hany Farid” [University of California, Berkely] about “why disinformation spreads online, how to find reliable sources of information, and why he’s still hopeful about our digital future.”…