A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve
How many American cities operate like this, either explicitly or in spirit? The answer is not going to be a small number. #Democracy
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The bottleneck shifts to distribution
"There is a fixed amount of scarce attention to go around, and too many people want it. The metagame becomes: secure attention by any means necessary."
When the President threatens to commit a genocide
This cannot continue.
"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds
"Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting “faulty” AI answers." Increasingly, incentive structures are asking them to.
Notable links: April 3, 2026
A dystopian week, with a glimmer of hope: alternatives are available.